Exploring conductive inks as an expressive medium for narrative storytelling, StoryClip synthesizes electrical functionality, aesthetics, a…
The LilyTiny is a small sewable breakout board for ATtiny85 microcontrollers�devices which may be integrated into circuits to enable pre-de…
The Computational Textiles Curriculum is a collection of projects that leverage the creativity and beauty inherent in e-textiles to create …
The LilyPad Arduino is a set of tools that empowers people to build soft, flexible, fabric-based computers. A set of sewable electronic mod…
We are exploring the methods by which traditional artisans construct new electronic technologies using contextually novel materials and pro…
We�ve developed a set of tools and techniques that make it easy to use microcontrollers as an art or craft material, embedding them directl…
Experiments in animating butterflies and moths with Shape Memory Metal, as part of a collaboration with the Punch Drunk theater group.
A first-step toward origami robotics, I/O paper is a pair of origami papers in which the red (controller) paper senses how it is being fold…
Animated Vines is an interactive paper installation that comes to life in the presence of a viewer. Normally a static wall hanging, as the …
LilyPond is a budding e-textile Web community that fosters creative collaboration through the sharing of personal projects. Home to a growi…
Getting Hands-On with Soft Circuits is a set of instructional materials which seeks to expose middle and high school students to the creati…
TeleScrapbook and TelePostcard are pairs of wirelessly connected electronic scrapbooks and electronic greeting cards, respectively. These e…
We are exploring ways to build sensors using a variety of crafting and needlework techniques, using affordable and available materials such…
I/O Stickers is an electronics construction kit made up of adhesive sensors and actuators. Users can place these special electronic sticker…
An electric tambourine that is completely powered by the playing of the instrument. The jingles of the tambourine are lined with piezoelec…
This project is an experiment in material and scale: a life-sized pop-up book that you can open up and step into, made using only cardboard…
This shape-sensing quilt consists of a communicating grid of textile tilt sensors. It showcases the wide variety of techniques we have dev…
Run your hand across this wallpaper to turn on a lamp, play music, or control your toaster. This project experiments with interactive wallp…
The Kit-of-No-Parts is an approach to crafting electronics rather than designing discrete components. The collection of recipes and ingredi…
Fab FM explores the possibilities for personal fabrication of consumer electronic devices. It is a wood- and fabric-cased FM radio that ca…
Cell phones are great for communication in a virtual manner, but lack expressiveness in personal surroundings. Many people try to give thei…
The Arduino platform makes prototyping and tinkering with electronics open to more people, but its complicated programming language is a ba…
Electronic Popables is an interactive pop-up book that sparkles, sings, and moves. The book integrates traditional pop-up mechanisms with t…