exploring wearable technology & electronic art using microcontrollers, sensors & e-textiles
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Using sensors and actuators in wearable technology using LilyPad Arduino. Features some examples of my work.TRANSCRIPT
Exploring wearable technology & electronic art using microcontrollers, sensors & e-textiles
Rain Ashford | http://rainycatz.wordpress
I create interactive wearables and art, working with many flavours of microcontrollers & various components…
I’m also part of a fantastic community of hardware & code hackers, artists and makers spread across the world
My work intersects several areas I’ve studied and enjoy: art, coding and electronics
Twinkle Starduino 2009
I’m fascinated by the juxtaposition of self tracking combined with social interaction and visibility of emotions, self-awareness and physical states via the use of sensors and actuators
..plus observing how audiences interact with my work & I’ve become a lot more interested in how people react to electronics in social situations
Sci-Fi has been a massive inspiration, but does all wearable technology have to look like… ?
NOPE!
..but I do like to challenge the notion that electronics has to be cold, sharp, boxy, grey & dull – by incorporating them into the overall design of my work
This is the LilyPad Arduino
..it’s a microcontroller & suite of modules designed for wearables & e-textiles that can be sewn directly to fabric with conductive thread. It use it for most of my wearable & e-textile based artworks
LilyPad ArduinoMicrocontroller
Wearables Sound Artworks Games All Interactive
Conductive Thread E-Textiles C (ish) Programming Sensors Actuators Repurposing
Electronics Conductive items
LilyPad Arduino Microcontroller
Fabulousness
It’s sewable! It’s open source – you can
find the Eagle files & code libraries online
Good number of digital & analogue I/O
Great vector for encouraging girls/ boys /adults/ artists /anyone / to experience electronics
It’s round (dismisses the idea that electronics are sharp grey and cold)
Enthusiastic & helpful community
Could be improved!
It’s not cheap! More modules please Different sizes and shapes of
board Different microcontrollers An industrial version with
possibility of using different voltages
More competitors, to increase innovation
Different types of I/O
For a glimpse of what you can do with LilyPad Arduino & e-textiles I’d like to show you some examples of my wearable, interactive & sound artworks!
Twinkle Tartiflette: words, image and sound into an interactive experience, brought to life by touching the words with a stylus
I <3 0X0: an interactive artwork, game, musical fancy and experiment in conductive Velcro
I wanted to create something interactive and playful and after some pondering I decided on a musical game of noughts & crosses!
‘Yr In Mah Face’: temperature /mood sensing t-shirt - uses Celsius temperature data from a sensor, averages it, then visualises the results via LEDs.
‘You Make My <3 Flutter’: proximity detecting, heart rate sensing ‘techlace’
Don’t Break My Heart is a wearable, colour-coded distance warning system prototype for cyclists to wear on their back
Thank you for your attention!
@Rainycat http://rainycatz.wordpress.com
http://Rain Ashford 2012