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wearable electronics, physical computing, textile geekery portfolio

• I'm experimenting with wearable solar energy and rechargeable batteries, including a wearable solar panel made from hacked electronic components.

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  solar studies

• Les Moulins de Paillard Contemporary Arts Centre in Poncé-sur-le-Loir, France celebrated their inauguration in June 2010.

  I designed an installation piece for them inspired by weaving, looms, punch cards and the history of the Paillard mill.

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  paillard punch installation

• As part of the V2_ E-Textile Workspace, we are independently exploring the possibilities of autonomous movement in textiles.

  I'm documenting my successes and failures here.

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  movement in textile studies

• The Greetometer Handshake Trainer measures the grip, angle and sweatiness of your handshake and gives you feedback in realtime.

  Part of a series made at the CBK Workgroup.

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  greetometer handshake trainer

• Sometimes it's difficult to apologise. Luckily, with the Apology Helmet, all you have to do is move your mouth and the helmet does the rest.

  Part of a series made at the CBK Workgroup.

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  apology helmet

• See-thru-me is a top that gives the illusion of light shining through the body.

  When a light source is shone on the back of the wearer, leds on the front of the garment light up.

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  see-thru-me

• Test(leds) is a game you can never win: try to turn on the LEDs faster than a computer program.

  Designed as a pracitical exercise in applying the techniques of sewn circuits.

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  test(leds)

• An exploratory exercise to see how LEDs could be embedded into beading. Also applies the fabric pressure sensor technique from Plusea's instructable.

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  light pressure

• PHP uses the romantic term "echo" to write text to the screen.

  On this piece, php is used to print rows of seed beads to the fabric. Each row begins on a new line, thanks to \n.

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  php echo

• Ada Lovelace is widely acknowledged as the world's first computer programmer due to her work designing programs for Charles Babbage. The programming language Ada is named after her.

  Here, a simple Ada program is used to output the universal greeting: hello world.

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  hello ada

• A simple little script to write 39 plus signs. Formatted into a square with each line of characters is joined together by yet more plus signs.

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  39+++

• The blink tag - classic pre turn of the century HTML.

  In this context, an html page entitled "wake up" enables five sets of silver balls to blink, like little eyes in the dark.

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  blink

• This vintage javascript opens a new window every day, lets you breathe and then closes it again.

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  window.open

• A javascript lie-detector wristband. Or is it a truth-detector. It all depends on how literally you take the result: is it true because it detected a lie, or is it false because the statement was false?

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  boolean_detector