Welcome to EduWear

We ran a workshop in a school for one week supported by the SWB. Or better say we ran 3 workshops in parallel. One called “intelligent accessoires”, one called “Senses and Sensors” and one called “Body and Movement”. The workshops were held on 5 days from 8 to 15h, this friday we will have the final presentation.

We started the workshop by a brainstorming session.

Here are some ideas of the brainstorming session in “Body and Movement”. The ideas and associations are:

• heartrate measure
• distance measure (for running)
• mood measure
• stretchy and waterproofed clothing
• step counter
• device to warn not to overdo one’s training
• night-vision device
• head-beand
• reflecting clothes
• tacho

In the intelligent assecoires group the kids came up with different ideas on jewellery i.e. bracelet, earrings or with bags, scarfs, hats and so on. “Senses and Sensors” seemed to be pretty abstact the ideas covered a wide range inluding light, music and cameras.

After the brainstorming the young people started to work on these and similar ideas.

We used the EduWear kit and some textiles.

Dear partners,

few weeks ago I visited one of our schools and we did a small workshop with children. The aim of the workshop was to briefly present the smart textiles and then ask the pupils to come up with their own ideas and put them on paper. You can download the results as well as scans of the best sketches here…

Files to download

There is a document with description of the activity and 3 zip files:

Sketches.zip – selection of best/most representative ideas
sketch_old.zip – all ideas from older students (19 pcs)
sketch_young.zip – all ideas from younger students (32 pcs)

We are planning to run similar pre-workshop activities also on two remaining schools.

Our faculty is every year hosting a scientific fair for young people – as a part of much more activities described as “The week of the science”. During these few days children from all over Slovakia are presenting their scientific projects in the area of Faculty of natural sciences. They can also visit various scientific lectures.
This year they had a chance to visit EduWear presentation as well. The title of the presentation was “EduWear – Smart textiles in education”. During the presentation I have roughly described the smart textiles and the ideas of our project. After the presentation students (aged approximately from 10 to 17) could touch the materials from the construction kit and all other components. The lecture was very short – just about 40 minutes.
At first the students seemed a bit confused by the idea of integrating electronic components into clothing, but later, after some examples were given they seemed to me more optimistic about the technology and starting to understand the idea behind smart textiles – they also came up with some ideas…
It was rather a short thing but a good experience for me before the upcoming first workshop here.

Photographs can be found here:

Here we go with an English Windows version and a German one. Have fun!

This one is interesting:

enlighted designs, inc.
The source for custom lighted clothing, costumes, and accessories.

URL: http://enlighted.com/index.html

In our weekly group we have some interesting projects. One might be the “Superhero costume” that allows the wearer to sense thing that are close through a super sonic sensor.

Here is a sneak preview of the nex amici version. At the moment for Mac only! But the cool thing: its for Intel and PPC. Download, unzip, open Terminal and change into the new folder i.e. cd /Users/mreichel/Desktop/amicifalpha Then type in sh run.sh I still did not succeed in making an app.

The changes are:

• Arduino0010 integrated (inluding great features as the universal binaries, support of high com numbers and a new menu structure – thank you so much, guys!)

• blocks drawn depending on their position

• setup block if you do not want the loop

• upload directly from visual programming