Ton of great links from e-textile symposium

By Georgia | Published: April 23, 2011

The e-textile Symposium at Penn last night was really inspiring. The speakers are really doing amazing work in the field of textiles and electronics, and a lot of it is on the web:

Blog featuring microcontroller/textile projects:

http://computationaltextiles.blogspot.com/

The LilyPond site featuring projects with the lilypad arduino:

http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/projects

Modkit – a graphical environment to drag and drop arduino code (a cross between scratch and arduino):

http://www.modk.it/

Really amazing work by the department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia:

http://xslabs.net/work.html

And the work by fiber/electronics artist Maggie Orth:

http://www.maggieorth.com/

Off to see Leah Buechley speak again today at UArts!

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  1. Tess
    Posted April 26, 2011 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    Thanks for sharing these links. I was really bummed that I couldn’t make it to this event, but was glad to see her at UArts the next day!

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