Resources (FALL 2009)
Materials + Resources (currently updating)
::MATERIALS::
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::Conductive Threads, Fabrics & Velcro::
[ AmberStrand ] conductive coated yarn - USA
[ Aracon ] [ Amberstrand ] conductive thread - USA
[ Bekaert ] [ Threads ] [ Fabrics ] highly electrically conductive spun yarn - Belgium
[ Berenstein Textiles ] conductive organza - USA
[ Fine Silver Products ] conductive thread, fabric, tape - USA
[ Flextex ] conductive fabric - USA
[ Hedgehog Handworks ] metal wrapped conductive threads
[ Hook & Loop ] conductive Velcro - USA
High Flex 3981 7x1 + 7x3 + 7x5 copper, silver plated; Kevlar 7077 7x1 copper, silver plated; 3981 7 x 1 [ Karl Grimm ] conductive thread - Germany
[ Lamé Lifesaver ] silver conductive thread - Canada
[ Less EMF ] conductive fabric, thread, Velcro, paint, ex-static fabric - USA (flectron)
[ Metalline ] - conductive fabric - Korea
[ Noble Biomaterials ] anti-static and conductive materials - USA
[ Offray Specialty Narrow Fabrics ] smart textiles, static dissipative products
[ Shieldex ] conductive fabric, thread, fabric zipper tape - DISTRIBUTEUR: [ Fine Silver Products ]
[ SparkFun Conductive Thread ]
[ T&L Barnes ] metal wrapped conductive threads
[ Textura Trading Company ] stainless steel conductive thread
[ Tinsel Trading Company ] vintage metal threads and fabric
[ TITV Greiz ] Elitex, a silver coated yarn - Germany
[ ITP Reference Page ]
::Metal Mesh Fabrics::
LOOK @ INCONEL TWILL [ Unique Wire ] Metal mesh fabric - USA
[ Tessitura Tele Metalliche Rossi ] Metal mesh fabric - Italy
[ Telerie d'Arte ] Metal mesh fabric - Italy
::Conductive Jewelery::
620 Cathcart, Montreal: Jewelery Building
[ Metalliferous ] metal, tools, beads, supplies for jewelery making - USA
::Specialty Fabrics::
[ Difco ] protective and high performance fabric
[ Dupont ] high-tech textiles
[ Engineered Fibre Structures ] Manchester, UK
[ Foster Miller ] electro textiles
[ Gorix Ltd ] high-tech textiles
[ Industrial Fabrics Association International ] not-for-profit trade association
[ Luminex ] light-emitting fabric
[ Material Connexion ] innovative meterials lexicon
[ Schoeller ] high-tech textiles
[ Scientific Instrument Services ] ceramic blankets and cloths
[ Sedo Chemicals ] neoprene
::Conductive Adhesive Tapes::
[ 3M ] conductive tapes
[ Electron Microspy Sciences ] conductive tapes
[ Ted Pella ] conductive tapes
[ The Tape Works ] liquid tape
::Conductive Powders and Paints::
[ Acheson Industries ] conductive screen prtintable silver inks and graphite-based pastes
[ Amazing Magnets ] ferrofluids
[ Atlantic Equipment Engineers ] metal powders and compounds
[ Bare Skin Safe Conductive Inks ] on body conductive inks
[ Chemtronics ] conductive pen
[ DuPont ] carbon and silver conductors
[ Elemental Scientific ] carbon graphite powder
[ LESSEMF ] Conductive Paint
[ SPI Supplies ] conductive powders and paint
::Other Conductive Materials::
[ Briwax ] metal wool
[ Devcon ] metal filled epoxy adhesive
[ Ercon ] sensor material
[ Seal Science ] conductive rubber
[ Zoflex ] conductive rubber
::Anti Static Materials::
[ Antistatic Industries ] anti-static products
[ StaticFaction ] distributor of Thunderon anti-static products
[ X-Static ] Silver fiber
::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
::Fusible and Fabric Glue::
[ AllStitch LLC ] Spray On Fusible Web
[ Fabrics Unlimited ] fusible
[ Hancock Fabrics ] Dritz Fray Check Seam Sealant
[ Products A LA CARTE ] Pellon fusibles
[ Quilting Warehouse ] fusible web, fusible tape
[ Red Rock Threads ] fusuble, invisible and water soluble thread
[ Save-on-crafts ] Aleene's Flexible Stretchfabric Glue, great as insolator for conductive fabric
[ Sulky ] Sulky Sticky Self-Adhesive Tear-Away Stabilizer
::Metal Sewing Accessories::
[ Prym ] sewing and needlework accessories
[ YKK ] fastening products
::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
::Actuators::
[ B&H Color Change Ltd. ] thermochromic ink
[ Colour Change Corporation ] thermochromic and photochromic ink
[ CTI Extreme Inks ] thermochromic ink
[ Dynalloy ] Flexinol, shape memory alloy
[ E-Ink ] electronic paper displays
[ Hallcrest ] tempature-triggered color changing technology
[ Matsui ] thermochromic pigments, aroma, ink, photopis, a UV light sensitive photochromic ink
[ Melcor ] thermoelectric cooling solutions
[ 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
[ Tayco ] temperature sensors and flexible heaters
[ Veriflex ] shape memory
::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
::Fabric Printing::
[ Hexagram Concordia ]
[ Jacquard Inkjet Fabric Systems ]
[ Sagamie ]
::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
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::INDUSTRY / MATERIALS RESEARCH::
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[ Badira ] Wearable Audio Devices, Germany
[ Baeumler ] Fashion Designer, Germany
[ Citeve ] Technological Centre for the Textile and Clothing Industries, Portugal
[ Baybox ] Media Wear, Germany
[ Daniel Hechter ] Fashion Designer, Nanosphere textile, France
[ Fashion Inovation ] Marketing & Distribution of smartTextiles, Germany
[ Heike Hüning ] Media Jacket - Film use, Germany
[ iHofmann ] smartTextiles Consulting, Germany
[ Jack Wolfskin ] Sports Apparel, Germany
[ Kufner Textiles ] Textiles, Germany
[ Mobile Research Centre Bremen ] Germany
[ Wear It At Work ] Wearable Computing Integration Research
[ Nova Nex ] Smart Textiles, Germany (collaborates with Phillips)
[ Pierre Cardin ] Fashion Designer, Solar Cell Jacket, France
[ Sunload ] Solar Bag, Germany
[ Xybermind ] Foot / Posture Analysis Wearables, Germany
[ Avantex ] Smart textiles
[ BodyMedia ] Biofeedback accessories
[ Bigelow Aerospace ] Space Travel & Inflatables
[ CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology ] Smart textiles
[ Defense Sciences Office ] Smart textiles
[ Eleksen ] Smart textiles
[ eMagin ] 3D Eyewear
[ Enlighted ] Smart textiles
[ FitSense ] Biofeedback spedometer
[ Fire Warrior ] Fireman Camera
[ Future Force Warrior ] Smart textiles
[ Hamilton Sundstrand ] Space Suits & Vehicles
[ Solar Cell Textiles ] Energy
[ HMC Media Lab ] Smart textiles
[ Honeybee Robotics ] Rovers +
[ IBM ] BlueSpace office
[ Infineon Technologies ] Smart textiles
[ Motorola Offspring ] Wearable devices
[ NANO Magic Silver ] Smart textiles
[ Physorg ] Health monitoring fabrics
[ Peru Naturtex ] Copper textiles
[ Oakley ] Audio Eyewear
[ Ready Set Glo ] Luminous paint
[ Reimas ] Smart clothing
[ Sensatex ] Biofeedback textile
[ SOFTswitch ] Smart textiles
[ Thinking Materials ] Wearable devices
[ Twiddler ] Portable Keyboard
[ Venture Development Corporation ] Technology Market Research
[ Vodaphone ] Wearable devices
[ Vivometrics ] Smart textiles
[ Xybernaut ] Wearable devices
[ ZESTAT F.901 ] Smart textiles
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::TUTORIALS::
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::Online Tutorials / Teaching::
[ Instructables ] [ Conductive Fabrics ]
[ Leah Bucheley Tutorials ]
[ Plusea ] Hannah Perner Wilson
[ The Softness of Things ] Despina Papadopoulos
::Electricity::
[ Basic Electrical Definitions ] Tom Igoe
[ What Is Electricity? ] William J. Beaty
[ Directory of Sources for Input Devices and Technologies ] Bill Buxton
[ Resistor Calculator ]
::Physical Computing::
[ All About Circuits ]
[ Ladyada ]
[ Mecanique Magazine ]
[ MidiTron ]
[ Physical Computing ] [ Materials at ITP ] ITP
[ PicBasic Forum ]
::Arduino::
[ Arduino Tutorial ]
[ Mouna Andraos - Very Basic Arduino ]
::LED::
[ LEDs 101 ] Don Klipstein
[ LED Wizard ]
::Plastisol::
[ Color Changing Inks ] Screen Web
[ General Plastisol Info ] Union Ink
[ Plastisol fallout: Is the ink really cured? ] Stitches Magazine
[ Plastisol Ink Product Information ] Ink Tech
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::FASHION::
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[ Comrags ] Toronto, Canada
[ I-Gle ] Zagreb, Croatia
[ threeASFOUR ] New York
[ United Nude ] London, UK