Disastrous Dinner

Capacitive sensing with knitting

A sampler of this project was made for the etextile summercamp swatch exchange 2014 http://etextile-summercamp.org/swatch-exchange/ Credits: Claire Williams & Wendy Van Wynsberghe

This project comes from the Disaster Dinner project, an interactive knitted tablecloth

Description: The machine knitted jacquard patterns become a textile keyboard which can interact with all sorts of software that accepts keyboard inputs. Connected with a MaKeyMaKey the knitted pattern becomes a way of experimenting with sound, videos, games etc.... The 3 patterns are x2 outputs and x1 ground. The left hand has to touch the pattern connected to the ground and with the right hand you can touch either of the patterns connected to the output of your MaKeyMaKey board. To programme the pattern keyboard you can use a Python script or Scratch for example. To test the pattern keyboard and make it create a sound when a pattern is touched you can upload a script at: https://github.com/clairewiwi/pattern-keyboard

Material: Acrylic & conductive yarn

Sources:

www.makeymakey.com

Knitted with a hacked Brother kh 940 knitting machine with Knittington https://github.com/stg/knittington

Maze generated from http://www.billsgames.com/mazegenerator/

Source code: https://github.com/clairewiwi/pattern-keyboard

Disastrous Dinner

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