Wearable and Interactive Products (WIP)

Nitinol

Suzi Webster — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:11:55 +0000

Shape memory alloy experiments ShapeMemoryAlloyTest2

Bobby and Suzi experiment

A wearable visualization

mlantin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:09:31 +0000

Here is an interesting and beautiful project by Mitchell Whitelaw that uses weather data mapping to create a virtual form that is 3D-printed and worn.

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Open Source Embroidery

dburg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:27:33 +0000

Katherine Soucie pointed me to this interesting project from the uk.

Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier

mlantin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:32:06 +0000

Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier

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IMEC designs flexible chip for wearables

mlantin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:11:27 +0000

ultra-thin flexible wireless monitoring system by IMEC.

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Thermochromic Inks in Wearables Class

mlantin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:42:23 +0000

Experiments in thermochromic inks

Suzi Webster has been introducing her students to thermochromic inks. See here is the blackboard in the IDS first floor foyer. Also in that space, for a limited time, the student work will be displayed. Don’t miss it!

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Video Conference in Wearables class

mlantin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:35:24 +0000

Suzi Webster organizes international guest presenters to come to her class via video conferencing. The setup use two screens, one for the remote presenter and one for any materials they want to show the class. The pictures below show the following presenters:

Gary Cass and Donna Franklin
Perth Australia
Micro-be fermented fashion http://bioalloy.org/o/projects/microbe.html

Sabine Seymour
Linz Austria
Author of Fashionable Technology http://www.moondial.com/

Video Conference with Gary Cass and Donna Franklin

Video Conference with Sabine Seymour

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Call for papers – International Symposium on Wearables Computers

mlantin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:59:48 +0000

From the ISWC website: ISWC’09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC’09 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC’09 explicitly aims to broaden its scope to include cell phones and cell phone applications as they have become the most successful wearable computer to date. We invite you to attend ISWC 2009 and submit your work to one or more of the following: long papers, short papers, posters, demonstrations, videos, late breaking results poster, tutorials and workshops. For first time, ISWC’09 will publish adjunct proceedings which will include the late breaking results, video papers, demonstrations, design papers of selected workshops. Download a PDF version of the CFP to print and distribute.

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Workbenches and electronics have arrived!

mlantin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:13:19 +0000

The 9 workbenches have arrived and will be assembled over the next few days by Simon and Rick. There was some damage to one of the cabinets and hopefully it will be replaced soon.

Electronic components have also arrived from Lee’s. Still on order are the oscilloscopes, Lego Mindstorm kits, the sewing supplies, and the storage units.

WIP Lab Update

mlantin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:27:31 +0000

Discussion:

We will need to get ventilation for the soldering stations. Diana and Jim both had the same suggestion for a small carbon filter. Grant will source.

A projector and projection surface would be very useful for teaching. We hadn’t thought about this. It may be possible to use one of our spare projectors and screens in the meantime? Once the lab is set up we can see what is feasible.

Usage of the lab:

Because we do not have a technician in places, the classes scheduled for the Fall will occur in the South Building as usual.

Jennifer Schuler will be keeping an eye on the embroidery machine as part of her appointment with the sewing centre in the South Building. This is very part time, maybe 1 day a week.

A Directed Studies student will also be using the embroidery machine and will keep an eye on it.

There may be a small amount of money for 1 day a week for a technician. This would be to support grad and faculty work in the space.

Discussion:

Both Diana and Jim would like to have use of the space for their class in the Fall. This will be discussed with curriculum support.

Helene is wondered about access to the embroidery machine. This is possible and would work well with the directed studies. Helene and the Directed Studies student will be connected.

Jim suggested to add “Interactive Products” to the lab name and the name became “Wearable and Interactive Products” or WIP for short. Jim has been named the head of the WIP.

Training

The first training session on the embroidery machine was held on August 14th. It was great but it would be good for the next training session to focus more on the software. Maria has made some enquiries about this possibility and has some tentative leads. Another training session will be scheduled before October. The basics of how to thread the machine and how to embroid a canned pattern can be learned from one of the people that attended the first training session.

There are also training DVDs that we will obtain from SWF that cover the software.

Grant set up a Blog page for the WIP lab (thanks!)

Jim showed us some prototypes objects that were made for an interactive museum experience. The objects were printed using a Dimension printer and embedded with microprocessors and IR transmitters.

A few books have been purchased for the lab:

Please recommend other books and resources.