Day 3 at the Worklab: Interactive textiles and how textiles visualize the environment and power my mobile.
More extensive brainstorming. When the idea got more formed of what sensors and elements we want to use and what kind of interaction and space we wish to create, we formed to teams. Team one discussed the interactive part of the Installation, what kind of sensors, what action will be required to trigger a reaction and how does that respond to the poetry of the Installation. The other team discussed to find ways how to treat the textile in relations to space, body, movement and interactivity. Later we met and combined it all. At the end of Day 3, we found ourselves cleaning and emptying the space, and to get started to prepare the textile element of the Installation.
During the whole day we made some tests, for expample: with the thermochromic paste and conductive wire plus carbon non woven textile, to create patterns that disappear/appear (depending on how you use the thermochromin paste as a negative or positive print) and we did some tests with sound and textile (through wire (textile stripes, wire) connected to a motor and attached to a textile – different textile qualities, like silk or cotton give different sounds. This motor-sound movement gives a funny shivering movement to the textile.
Riccardo was writing the scripts needed to get our circuits to work and to connect the needed hardware to it – LED´s powered by Solar Cells, sound from motors connected to textile captured with mini loudspeakers and physical movement created by motors upon textiles.