What is it about?

A toolkit for the DIY production of interactive textile prototypes and smart fashion. The toolkit is easily accessible and requires only an iron for implementation. The key to our approach is the use of flexible PCBs and textile conductor paths fused together by a heat-activated adhesive in a single process step. The toolkit offers a variety of applications, such as the realization of prototypes, the production of small series, applications in the DIY community and within the field of digital education. In the following, we present our technology and provide insights into the application of the toolkit.

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Why is it important?

The toolkit created as part of the “MYOW - Make Your Own Wearables” project enables individual project implementations without the need for special machines. The toolkit consists of pre-assembled modules that can be placed and applied individually on a textile.

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Making technology more accessible

Esther Zahn
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz GmbH

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This page is a summary of: Demonstrating a Modular Construction Toolkit for Interactive Textile Applications, October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3419249.3420075.
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