Soft Circuits Workshop Final Project Presentation
NYU ITP Summer 2008 By Alex Kowal
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a soft wall lamp
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inspiration & related projects
‣ Quilt Snaps
Leah Buechley
University of Colorado at Boulder
‣ Pummer Circuits
‣ Crafts/Knitting/Quilting
“... art and engineering are not inherently distant from
one another; there is no intrinsic reason why the two
should not be investigated in tandem. We believe that
the divorcing of aesthetics from engineering contributes
to its lack of diversity.”
The LilyPad Arduino: Using Computational Textiles to Investigate Engagement,
Aesthetics, and Diversity in Computer Science Education
Leah Buechley, Mike Eisenberg, Jaime Catchen, and Ali Crockett
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