Fabricademy: eTextiles + Wearables II
Overview This lecture is the second eTextile and wearable class developed for Fabricademy 2018. You can see the full lecture here. Enjoy 🙂 Resources VISUAL Neopixels Sewable Neopixels Neopixel Effect Generator Adafruit Neopixel Uberguide Library installation Powering Fiber Optics The Beginners Guide to Fiber Optics by MikaelaHolmes Lateral optical fibers by Datapaulette Lulu Project by […]
Soft Switches
Circuit Here is the circuit to use to connect your soft switch to an Arduino. These swatches use the button sketch in the examples. BUTTON Momentary switches (aka push buttons) stay open as long as you hold them by pressing conductive materials into contact. Demo Construction STROKE SENSOR Close the circuit by pressing conductive materials […]
Fabricademy: eTextiles + Wearables I
Circuits SWITCHES Here is the circuit you need to connect your soft switches. To see more images and videos of them in action, check out this post. SENSORS Here is the voltage divider circuit you need to connect your soft sensors. To see more images and videos of them in action, check out this […]
Different Formats, Different Stories
Today I had the fantastic pleasure of teaching my first section as Designer in Residence at the Journalism+Design program at the New School. One of the amazing professors I’m working with is Kia Gregory who is teaching a senior capstone class. The goal of the class was to prepare students to start thinking critically about […]
Soft Circuit Storytelling at Virginia Children’s Engineering Conference
Overview I was invited to give a workshop by the wonderful folks at the Virginia Children’s Engineering Conference to 50 elementary school teachers. Participants built blinky name tags that showed our emotions, learned about how electricity moves, questioned how different LEDs “eat” voltage, collaboratively wrote stories, and created our own interactive storybook covers out of paper, […]
Computational Craft Zines!
This summer, Becky Stewart gave a wonderful workshop on the Math Behind Circuits. Instead of lecturing us at a white board (which she would never do anyway), Becky busted out that wonderful little nostalgic nugget of punk self-publishing: the zine. So broadly applicable, so unintimidating – a perfect format for teaching complex topics to novices. […]
Crafting Technology 101 Workshop
On August 9, I had the delightful honor of presenting to a group of young ladies (14-15 years old) who are participating in the GOALS for Girls program housed at the Intrepid Museum. A big part of this program is to bring field experts and mentors in to speak to the girls about different disciplines […]
Crafting Resistance workshops this April
After many months of pondering and planning, this workshop series is finally making it’s way into the world. More to come on the why and the how, but here’s the overview: Crafting Resistance Craft has long been a tool of activist movements, whether quilting to spread awareness of AIDS, embroidering as a means to rebel […]
ATtiny Workshop at Fab Lab BCN’s Textile Bootcamp
ATtiny Embroidery In this workshop, participants will create a dual sensor testing circuit and touch sensitive textile using the ATtiny. ATtiny Embroidery Swatch from Liza Stark on Vimeo. Important Links Code used in workshop Dave Mellis’ ATtiny library (To turn your Arduino into a ATtiny programming machine. Full tutorial here.)
GDC ’16: How to Turn a Teacher into a Game Designer
This is my talk from the 2016 Game Developers Conference. It was part of a panel called Teaching with Games 3: Another Six Exercises in Play. My talk focuses on an exercise we used as part of Institute of Play’s TeacherQuest program. After a basic introduction to modding games with tic-tac-toe, educators are given a […]