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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.

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StoryClip

Exploring conductive inks as an expressive medium for narrative storytelling, StoryClip synthesizes electrical functionality, aesthetics, a…
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LilyTiny

The LilyTiny is a small sewable breakout board for ATtiny85 microcontrollers�devices which may be integrated into circuits to enable pre-de…
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Computational Textiles Curriculum

The Computational Textiles Curriculum is a collection of projects that leverage the creativity and beauty inherent in e-textiles to create …
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LilyPad Arduino

The LilyPad Arduino is a set of tools that empowers people to build soft, flexible, fabric-based computers. A set of sewable electronic mod…
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Exploring Artisanal Technology

We are exploring the methods by which traditional artisans construct new electronic technologies using contextually novel materials and pro…
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Microcontrollers As Material

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…
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Butterflies Sleep No More

Experiments in animating butterflies and moths with Shape Memory Metal, as part of a collaboration with the Punch Drunk theater group.
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Self-Folding Origami Paper

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…
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Animated Vines

Animated Vines is an interactive paper installation that comes to life in the presence of a viewer. Normally a static wall hanging, as the …
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LilyPond

LilyPond is a budding e-textile Web community that fosters creative collaboration through the sharing of personal projects. Home to a growi…
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Getting Hands-On with Soft Circuits

Getting Hands-On with Soft Circuits is a set of instructional materials which seeks to expose middle and high school students to the creati…
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TeleScrapbook and TelePostcard

TeleScrapbook and TelePostcard are pairs of wirelessly connected electronic scrapbooks and electronic greeting cards, respectively. These e…
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Textile Sensors

We are exploring ways to build sensors using a variety of crafting and needlework techniques, using affordable and available materials such…
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I/O Stickers

I/O Stickers is an electronics construction kit made up of adhesive sensors and actuators. Users can place these special electronic sticker…
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Piezo Powered Tambourine

An electric tambourine that is completely powered by the playing of the instrument. The jingles of the tambourine are lined with piezoelec…
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Novel Architecture

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…
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Tilt-Sensing Quilt

This shape-sensing quilt consists of a communicating grid of textile tilt sensors. It showcases the wide variety of techniques we have dev…
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Living Wall

Run your hand across this wallpaper to turn on a lamp, play music, or control your toaster. This project experiments with interactive wallp…
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A Kit-of-No-Parts

The Kit-of-No-Parts is an approach to crafting electronics rather than designing discrete components. The collection of recipes and ingredi…
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Fab FM

Fab FM explores the possibilities for personal fabrication of consumer electronic devices. It is a wood- and fabric-cased FM radio that ca…
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Android Meets Arduino

Cell phones are great for communication in a virtual manner, but lack expressiveness in personal surroundings. Many people try to give thei…
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Scratch for Arduino

The Arduino platform makes prototyping and tinkering with electronics open to more people, but its complicated programming language is a ba…
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Electronic Popables: An Interactive Pop-Up Book

Electronic Popables is an interactive pop-up book that sparkles, sings, and moves. The book integrates traditional pop-up mechanisms with t…
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