CCI Students

Outcome: The Feeled - Magalie Bommer and Ivy Langley

This award winning (!) project, based on the UKs transformer network and solar storms, used both conductive and UV reactive thread alongside an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor and UV LEDs to reveal hidden designs when touched.

One Day I'll Have A Garden Like This Too - Ophelie Selz

This project used stitched coils of wire to produce sounds as research and development for fabric speaker. Find the full project on her website - here

Isabela Ortiz, Nicolás Urrego, and Veronika Gryshchu

This project reimagines the game Space Invaders as a space for care, creation, and slowness, challenging the assumption that video games are centered on winning and violence. Through an e-textile interface using fabric, conductive stitched areas, and a needle as controller, the act of playing becomes an act of embroidery, where each interaction generates both a physical and digital pattern. This exploration uses e-textiles as a medium for rethinking interaction, temporality, and the role of the player.

The controller is made using textile materials: fabric, thread and conductive tape. Instead of traditional buttons, it works with two layers of fabric placed facing each other, each containing three conductive areas. These areas correspond to the game actions (move left, shoot, and move right). To trigger an action, the player passes a metal needle through both layers, connecting the conductive areas and closing the circuit so electricity can flow.

Programming Empathy - Rosie Walker

As part of her masters project, our etextiles technician Rosie made an interactive orb that connected to an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor. With sustained contact, the lights inside the orb grow brighter and warmer.

The panels that made up the sphere were made with the intarsia carriage to keep the conductive panels separated and the shape designed on DesignaKnit.