Free hardware electronic textile platform (based on NE555) — All code under GPLv2 & content under Creative Commons CC0 & CC-BY-SA 4.0. Copyleft Collectif 0R.
Textilo is a simple board with an oscillator circuit built from a few components and a 555 timer. The purpose of this board is to provide people with a small, ready-to-use device for experimenting with sensors made using different e-craft techniques.
Since 2015, this tool has gone through several iterations. The first one, developed with JB Labrune, was textile-oriented. The board was built with neoprene as the substrate and copper polyester for the circuit.
Several experiments have been carried out to create the circuit — from paper substrates to knitting, screen printing, or batik techniques.
But the approach we kept was simply to cut the electronic circuit on copper fabric and attach it to neoprene with a fusible.
Iteration #2
The second version was developed in collaboration with Adrian Freed, pushing further the idea of interdigitation to interact with sound. This new version was produced for a workshop and later improved during the eTextile Spring Break.
Iteration #3
The last iteration was a board produced during a trip to Shenzhen for the research project Resilient Craft Electronics. This version, created with Antoine Pintout, features a central board and two graphical add-ons based on the logic of interdigitation for interaction. The aim, however, is to let people design their own patterns to play sounds with the board.
More details and documentation here.
