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26 September – 26 December 2024 My project E-Static Soft Sensors was featured in the Luovuuden aalloilla / On the Waves of Creativity exhibition at Science Centre Heureka, Vantaa, Finland. The exhibition was produced by Aalto University in collaboration with…
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This website is a part of ESTEK, or E-static textiles exploration kit, that facilitates the incorporation of static electricity as a resource in e-textile design and development. ESTEK or Electrostatic Textiles Exploration Kit is a toolkit for investigating static electricity…
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Easy to prototype with static electricity with this custom-made PCB.
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“Engaging with e-static textiles” is exhibited at designtransfer showcase as part of Vorspeil Transmediale 2021 at Einsteinufer 43, Berlin from 22.01.2021 to 28.02.2021.
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My doctoral thesis “Engaging with e-static textiles: An investigation into textile interaction design for shaping body-driven energy harvesting in the interior” is now published and available to view and download at https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1357
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An electrostatic setup that simulates a long-term energy harvesting interaction to study the experience of engaging in energy harvesting practices with ones body. This interactive prototype is made using the e-static board in a setup described in this post>>
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The e-static prototyping board can be connected to the interrupt pin of the Arduino to program complex interactive systems using static electricity and textiles. Here is a simple example of reading the e-static board and printing to an Arduino Serial…
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Different outputs can be directly connected to the prototyping board to interpret the e-static charges visually (for e.g., using an LED), sonically (for e.g. with a piezo speaker), tangibly (e.g., with a vibration motor) etc. The output will correspond directly…
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A counter module connected to the OUT pin of the e-static textile prototyping board can be used to count interactions with an electrostatic textile setup. The prototyping board reads the electrostatic charges generated due to the interaction with the body…
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Explore long term engagement with electrostatic textile systems- How will it be to actively interact with an electrostatic textile everyday for the purpose of energy harvesting? While the technology of e-static harvesting is rapidly catching up, questions regarding experience of…
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26 September – 26 December 2024 My project E-Static Soft Sensors was featured in the Luovuuden aalloilla / On the Waves of Creativity exhibition at Science Centre Heureka, Vantaa, Finland. The exhibition was produced by Aalto University in collaboration with…
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“Engaging with e-static textiles” is exhibited at designtransfer showcase as part of Vorspeil Transmediale 2021 at Einsteinufer 43, Berlin from 22.01.2021 to 28.02.2021.
Read More
My doctoral thesis “Engaging with e-static textiles: An investigation into textile interaction design for shaping body-driven energy harvesting in the interior” is now published and available to view and download at https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1357
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A half-day e-static textiles workshop held at IKEA Sweden in July 2019. Special thanks to Prof.Dr. Linda Wörbin for this amazing opportunity!
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