WRAP-UP | 4 Months, July 2016 – October 2016
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The Knitcoin Edition

The Knitcoin Edition is an intervention in the well-known board game Monopoly. When players need play money, they must knit it.

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The Embroidered Computer

The Embroidered Computer is an 8-bit universal electromechanical computer comparable to early mainframe computers that were built in the 1950s in terms of its capacity and workings.

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Yarn Recorder

The Yarn Recorder is a device for recording and playing sound, which curiously utilizes spools of yarns and threads as the recording media.

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Tools We Want

Tools We Want emerged from the desire to imagine, design, and build functional tools for electronic textile practices, which have been bound to borrowing their tools from the formerly isolated domains of textiles and electronics.

PHASE 2 | Macro-Electronics | 6 Months, January 2015 – June 2015
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Crafted Logic

What if digital electronics emerged from textile handcrafts? How would technology be different if craftspeople were the catalyst to the electronics industry, via textiles manufacturing?

Crafted Logic is part of a larger research into creating electronic components from scratch.

PHASE 1 | Crafting Realities | 6 Months, July 2014 – December 2014
Speculation

The Knitted Radio

The Knitted Radio manifests how to knit a sweater that is also an FM radio transmitter. The tactile centerpiece is a functional electronic object knitted out of ordinary wool and commonly available conductive materials. The accompanying knitting instructions, to be published in a knitting magazine, allows the reproduction of the electronic object by an alternative maker group.

Stitching Worlds - Kickoff