Resources and Reviews

Basic Circuits and electronics
The Electronics club
- Electricity and the Electron
- Series and Parallel Connections
- Circuit Diagrams
Doctronics

Arduino Lilypad
Understanding the Arduino
- Leah Buechley, creator of the Lilypad
- Lady Ada’s tutorials
Instructibles.com – many different ‘how-to’s’, from solar powered thingys to other people’s experiments with conductive thread

MA Theses
E-broidery: An Infrastructure for Washable Computing, Ernest Rehmatulla Post, B.S., Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
May 1996
Otto von Busch: Fashion:able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design, Gothenburg, 2008

Contemporary context
materials:
FabriCan: a spray-on, non-woven fabric developed by Manel Torres
Sonic Fabric: woven from 50% recycled audio tape and 50% cotton

socio-cultural context
Studio Orta – Lucy Orta best known for refuge-wear series
Moreno Ferrari’s convertible clothes: Polyurethane sections of the parka inflate to form a blow up chair

environmental
Portable light project – adaptable, solar powered fabric lights to provide light to people off the grid
Taiknam Hat: kinetic hat that reacts to changing levels of surrounding radio wave signals

research and theory
Thecla Schiphorst and whisper project Art R&D

life recording/lifelogging
Necs concept device
Microsoft’s sensecam