Needle Felted Interface
Needle Felted E-Textile Capacitive Sensors
This piece was the result of a class at Music Hackspace about creating an e-textile musical instrument, taught by artist Sam Topley.
Materials include dyed wool roving, fine steel wool, cotton fabric, and electronics components. The piece is controlled by an Arduino Lilypad, which can output simple tones to a speaker, or allow the piece to function as an interface for playing recorded sounds via Max.
The kit of materials.
The beginning of my design. Some patches are conductive, others are merely decorative.
The finished piece.
The back of the felted patches.
The back of the piece, with connections to the Arduino Lilypad.
Early testing of the capacitive patches.