Speaker prototypes from conductive thread.    

  Stuck between projects so I started stitching.    

  Sorting Harry’s boxes and I unearthed some useful supplies!      

  A menu item on the Brother ScanNCut is seam allowance. This setting creates a margin around the image being cut. This measurement is of particular importance when designing and cutting conductive fabrics.     As you can see in the below image the pen draws the item to be cut as well as the margin around the item cut. […]

  The Brother ScanNCut mats have an adhesive application already applied to the surface allowing fabrics and papers to be securely held in place while using the machine.   Although the adhesive is low tack it attracts every loose fiber and hair to its surface making it difficult to have a clean cut without causing woven fabrics to fray and […]

  In hopes of resolving the low tack mat adhesive holding the conductive fabric in place while cutting a speaker coil we tried the High Tack Adhesive Support Sheet included with the kit.   This product did hold the conductive fabric in place during cutting of a basic rectangular shape, but the fabric trace needed for the circuit was very […]

  The Brother ScanNCut uses a separate pen holder with specific sized felt tip ink pens to draw your designs. I want to plot electronic traces, but Brother doesn’t manufacture conductive ink pen cartridges so Denis and I began to hack together a solution.   First we took apart an existing pen holder and cleaned both the felt tip and […]

  While at PIF Camp in Trenta Slovenia we tested the Brother ScanNCut with Statex conductive fabric to make eTextile speakers.   Denis began the project by drawing samples of the coils on his computer. Next we fused an iron on adhesive, Pellon Heat Bond, to one side of the conductive fabric.     Scanning the coil samples into the […]

  I liked the first coffee mug so much that I made another black and white electronic symbol coffee cup.