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Course Description

Technology and its potential for innovation are entwined with advanced structural production and process. This lab introduces a variety of current technological possibilities. Exploring scientific advancement, students are encouraged to propose technological interaction at various stages of art/garment design and making.

Reading

Origin and Development of Robotic Art by Eduardo Kac

Resources

Materials

::Actuators::
[ Dynalloy ] Flexinol, shape memory alloy
[ Memory Metalle GmbH ] shape memory alloys
[ Mymotors & Actuators GmbH ] flat motors
[ Nitinol ] shape memory alloy
[ Precision Microdrives ] precision motion control components
[ SAES Smart Materials ] shape memory alloys
[ Veriflex ] shape memory

::Isolating and Model-Making Materials::
[ Environmental Technology ] easy cast resisns
[ FormFX ] liquid rubbers, plastics, medical adhesives, alcohol-based body inks
[ Panipol ] polyanline products
[ Resin Technical Systems ] resin
[ Shape Lock ] modelling and mould making
[ Smooth-on ] rubber, plastics, foam, adhesives
[ Soltor Plastics ] acrylic glass
[ Teknor Apex ] advanced polymer materials
[ Von Roll ] electrical insulating materials

::Sensors::
[ Conductive Technologies ] electro-chemical sensors, membrane switches, flexible heaters
[ ClickTouchAmerica ] membrane switches, panels, keypads Montreal, Canada
[ Eleksen ] textile touchpads – DISTRIBUTEUR: [Peratech] [ Qiosystems ]
[ Flexpoint ] bend and flex sensors
[ Images ] many different sensors and actuators
[ Interlink Electronics ] force-sensitive resistors and touchpads
[ International Fashion Machines ] wall dimmer
[ Microstrain ] wireless sensors
[ Piezo Systems ] piezo elements
[ Stella ] stretchable elextronics
SAMPLE [ Textronics ] wearable sensors
[ Xsens ] motion, orientation and position measurements

::Communication Connections::
[ ABACOM ] embadded RF and network devices
[ Bluetooth ] Bluetooth solutions
[ Fibretronic ] soft electronic components
[ Lemos International] radio communication
[ Moog ] slip rings
[ Novonic ] textile cable
[ Skyetek ] RFID
[ XBee ] wireless communication modules

::Power::
[ All Battery ]
[ Powerfilm ] flexible solar panels
[ Solar Home ] flexible, portable, modular solar systems
[ Solar World ] think, flexible solar panels
[ Total Power Solution ] batteries
[ Microbattery ] micro batteries

::Displays::
[ Best Hong Kong ] cheap LEDS
[ Dupont ] electroluminescence
[ Fabcell ] non-emissive, multi-color fabric module
[ Fresnel Technologies ] plastic optical lenses
[ Glowire ] eletroluminescent wire
[ LED-Flex ] LED tubes
[ LEE-Filters ] lighting and camera filters
[ Lytec ] electroluminescent wire
[ MARL ] LEDs
[ Nichia ] RGB LEDs
[ Oryon Technologies ] Elastolite
[ Pacel ] EL displays
[ Philips ] Lumalive
[ Plastic Logic ] flexible displays
[ Rogers Corporation ] electroluminescent lighting systems
[ Super Bright LEDs ]
[ Sun Tec ] Soft / Printed Leds

::Physical Computing Platforms::
[ Arduino ]
[ Basic Stamp ]
[ D-Tools ]
[ Euro Circuits ]
[ GoGo Board ]
[ Handyboard ]
[ Lilypads ]
[ LogoChip ]
[ Making Things ]
[ MidiTron ]
[ Phidgets ]
[ Wiring ]

::Microcontollers::
[ ATMEL ]
[ Basic micro ]
[ Microchip ]
[ Micromint ]
[ Netmedia ]
[ Parallax ]

::Electronics Purchase and Prototyping::
[ Abra Electronics ] Montreal
[ Active Electronics ] Montreal
[ Addison ] Montreal
[ All Electronics ] online electronics surplus distributor
[ Arduino ] Italy
[ CSD ] online electronics distributor
[ Digikey ] online electronics distributor
[ Electronic Goldmine ] online electronics surplus distributor
[ Farnell ] online electronics distributor
[ Fluke ] multimeters
[ HVW Technologies ] Canada
[ I-CUBE ] Canada
[ JAMECO ] online electronics distributor
[ JAMECO Robot Store ] robotic kits, parts & more
[ Mouser Electronics ] electronic component distributor
[ RS ] online electronics distributor
[ Robot Shop ] electronics distributor, Boisbriand, Quebec
[ Small Parts ] the hardware store for researchers and developers
[ Solarbotics ] mature hobby robotics and electronics company, USA
[ Sparkfun ] online electronics distributor, USA
[ The Source – By Circuit City ] electronics distributor, Canada
[ Udisco ] hobby store, Montreal

::Software::
[ Cycling ’74 ] Max/MSP
[ Processing ] open source programming language and environment
[ Pure Data ] software by Miller Puckette

::Circuit Printing / Developing::
[ AP Circuits ] Calgary
[ Circuit Solaris ]
[ Douglas Corporation ] Flexible Circuits
[ Ferro: New Nano Silver Powder Flexible Printed Circuit ]
[ Labo Circuits ] Montreal
[ Minco : Circuits : Heating : ] Flexible Circuits
[ PCB Express ] Washington
[ PCB milling ] printed circuit board milling
[ EAGLE: Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor ] software/design
[ Tinker It ] technology & design consultancy with Arduino
[ Woven Electronics ] woven circuits