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Community / Local Groups / Re: Arduinoids in Ontario Canada
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on: January 27, 2012, 01:23:44 pm
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If you are interested in Wearable Technology you can also come to the Toronto Wearables Meetup which happens monthly at OCAD University, 205 Richmond Street West. We get together and talk about, well, inventive ways of wearing your electronics  --- and yes, 255 College is at College/Spadina. Parking is not often an issue... lots of parking on the east side of Spadina just south of College, or on side streets. here is a link to our site, and our blurb: http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/socialbodylab/toronto-wearables-meetup/The Toronto Wearables Meetup is a gathering of people interested in wearable technology, fashion, wearable electronics, soft circuits, electronic textiles, emerging materials, and other creative and innovative approaches to things that live on the body. This Meetup intended for artists, fashion designers, industrial designers, textile enthusiasts, engineers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in these emerging and intersecting fields. |
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Community / Local Groups / Toronto Wearable Technology Meetup
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on: January 27, 2012, 01:19:24 pm
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If anyone is in the Toronto area and is interested in a meetup centered around Wearable Technology (often involving Arduinos, Lilypad Arduinos, discussion of new materials and inventive uses of materials), do come out to the Toronto Wearables Meetup which happens monthly, usually the 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month. You can get information on upcoming meetups as well as past meetups on our site: http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/socialbodylab/toronto-wearables-meetup/
The Toronto Wearables Meetup is a gathering of people interested in wearable technology, fashion, wearable electronics, soft circuits, electronic textiles, emerging materials, and other creative and innovative approaches to things that live on the body. This Meetup intended for artists, fashion designers, industrial designers, textile enthusiasts, engineers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in these emerging and intersecting fields. |
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Community / Local Groups / Re: Arduinoids in Ontario Canada
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on: October 20, 2011, 08:17:17 pm
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Hey everyone, you should be coming and hanging out at Interaccess! Each wednesday night is an open studio where you can work on projects and ask other electronics nerds how to get things working like how you want! There is a night specific to "handmade music", and another for "wearable technology", but really, you can just come and hang out and work on projects! Check it out: www.interaccess.org. There are also Arduino workshops! |
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Community / Workshops and Events / Toronto Wearables Meetup
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on: October 06, 2011, 06:09:01 pm
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Toronto Wearables Meetup 8 With guest speakers: Jessica Thompson, and the H2.0 Collective Wednesday October 12, 2011 205 Richmond, room 7602 http://torontowearables8.eventbrite.com/The Toronto Wearables Meetup is a gathering of people interested in wearable technology, fashion, wearable electronics, soft circuits, electronic textiles, emerging materials, and other creative and innovative approaches to things that live on the body. This Meetup is intended for artists, fashion designers, industrial designers, textile enthusiasts, engineers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in these emerging and intersecting fields.This month's speakers:Jessica Thompson is a media artist whose projects facilitate social situations in public space through sound, performance and wearable technologies. Her studio practice involves the creation of interactive sound pieces that audience members are invited to borrow and use within urban environments, and large-scale collaborative performances. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and festivals such as ISEA 2006 (San Jose, CA), FINE/LINE (Denmark), the Conflux Festival (New York), the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art, (Toronto) and most recently at the Norsk Teknisk Museum (Oslo). Her projects have appeared in publications such as Canadian Art, c Magazine, Acoustic Territories, and numerous art and technology blogs. She holds a BFA in Visual Art from York University in Toronto and an MFA in Emerging Practices from SUNY at Buffalo. Jessica Thompson: http://www.jessicathompson.caThe H2.0 Collective consists of OCAD art and design students Loretta Faveri, Joanne Jin, Michael Vaughn and Chris Holborn. The Collective launched their first exhibition at Nuit Blanche 2011, for which they designed a series of anthropomorphic dresses that interact with viewer’s movement, speech, and proximity. Through this work the H2.0 Collective raises the issue of modern society’s reliance on technologies to represent one’s sentiments, while at the same time humouring and impressing the viewer with the capabilities of wearable soft circuits encased in their clever designs. Toronto Wearables Meetup: http://www.torontowearables.com/RSVP to the event: http://torontowearables8.eventbrite.com/
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Community / Workshops and Events / Wearable Electronics MASTERCLASS in Toronto
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on: September 15, 2011, 06:44:17 pm
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Wearables Masterclass with Kate Hartman
When: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 7-10pm
Instructor: Kate Hartman Price: $45 ($35 members) About the workshop: This workshop will provide a follow up to the Intro to Wearable Technologies & Soft Circuits and Intro to Lilypad Arduino. Advanced wearable techies or those with related experience are also welcome. Moving beyond the basics, we'll delve into the specifics of designing and troubleshooting wearable tech projects. This includes criteria for choosing parts and materials; approaches for developing more sophisticated behaviours through the use of sensors, actuators, and code; and strategies for creating works that are responsive, robust, and resilient. Participants should come with the following: The kit used in the Intro to Lilypad Arduino workshop or a similar collection of parts A project in mind and any progress they've made with it so far, whether it be a sketch, a bag of parts, or even a first prototype. About the instructor: KATE HARTMAN is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help, and the Lilypad XBee, a sewable radio transceiver that allows your clothing to communicate. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in the New York Times, the BBC, the CBC and NPR and, in books such as Fashionable Technology and Art Science Now. She was recently a speaker at TED 2011 and her work is currently on view in Talk to Me at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Hartman is based in Toronto where she is the Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University. http://www.katehartman.com
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Community / Workshops and Events / Lilypad Arduino and Soft Circuits Workshops in Toronto
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on: September 15, 2011, 06:43:15 pm
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Intro to Wearable Technology & Soft Circuits
When: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 7-10pm
Instructors: Erin Lewis & Ken Leung
Price: $45 ($35 members)
About the workshop: Soft circuits are electronic circuits made wearable through the use of conductive thread and conductive fabric. In wearable electronics, circuitry design and application are made with the body in mind.
This workshop will introduce you to the world of wearable conductive materials as well as specific techniques for their application on the body. You will learn to construct soft analog components such as wearable switches, flex and force sensors, soft pressure matrices and even fuzzy, directional 'stroke' sensors. You will also learn to think about the body and its movements in an entirely different way: as a means to actuate electronics!
This workshop is great for crafters, makers, DIYers, electronic hobbyists, and anyone looking to include the dimension of the body and soft analog electronics into their projects.
About the instructors:
ERIN LEWIS is an emerging artist who is currently studying Integrated Media at OCAD University, with a minor in Wearable Technology. She works predominately with electronics and video in an installation setting. Erin has released video work with the National Film Board of Canada, exhibited work in Nuit Blanche, and conducted live video performances across Toronto and Europe. She enjoys grapes, kittens, and real-time data feeds.
KEN LEUNG is a multidisciplinary designer and artist residing in Toronto with strong interests in wearable technology, physical computing, and interface design. Ken's interactive work has been exhibited at Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone Hotel, and Harbourfront Center, and he is currently working with the Mobile Experience Lab and Social Body Lab at OCAD on various locative and wearables projects. Ken has a background in Psychology, computer programming, digital media, and Industrial design.
Intro to Lilypad Arduino
When: Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 7-10pm
Instructors: Erin Lewis & Ken Leung
Price: $45 ($35 members)
About the workshop: The Lilypad Arduino is a programmable microcontroller specially designed for use in wearable tech and e-textiles projects.
In this workshop, we will introduce you to the Lilypad and its suite of sensors and accessories, teach you how to interface the Lilypad with soft circuits, and guide you through the basics of writing Arduino code to add fun interactive behaviors to your wearables projects. Hands-on exercises and a variety of example projects will be used to explore the exciting possibilities of this technology.
Participants will be working with Lilypad Arduinos and a variety of other materials like LEDs and sensors. Participants can purchase a kit containing all these goodies at InterAccess and take it home with them following the workshop, or simply use materials that will be on hand. The kits can be purchased at cost from InterAccess for $50. Kits contain: an FTDI breakout board, a Lilypad Arduino, a mini USB cable, a button board, a bobbin of conductive thread, a light sensor, a battery holder and a selection of LEDs.
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International / Español / ¿Eventos en Madrid?
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on: June 07, 2011, 04:46:41 pm
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Hola,
Me voy a Madrid este verano. ¿hay eventos para artistas electrónicas durante el Agusto? (talleres, exhibiciónes, etc.)
Ya escribé Dorkbot Madrid, pero creo que no functiona nada más. Hay MediaLab Prado, pero ese es la única otra organizacion que conozco.
Hay otras?
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Community / Workshops and Events / E-Textiles/Wearable Tech Workshop Series in Toronto, Canada
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on: June 07, 2011, 04:30:15 pm
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Please find below information for a workshop series in Wearable Tech/E-textiles hosted at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto, Canada. If you have any questions, please PM me! http://interaccess.org/workshops/series.phpWEARABLES MINI SERIES Intro to Sewing* When: Tuesday, June 14th, 7-10pm Instructor: Rosie Spooner Price: $45 ($35 InterAccess members) About the workshop: This workshop will introduce the basics of sewing, both by hand and using a domestic sewing machine. We will make small bags that participants can take away with them, and also use at the next two wearables workshops where they will learn how to soup up their sewn creations with sensors and LEDs. This workshop is designed to partner with both Intro to Wearable Technologies & Soft Circuits and Intro to Arduino, teaching participants the introductory sewing skills needed for these two workshops, as well as basic, handy sewing tips and techniques like making button holes, sewing in zippers and following patterns. About the instructor: ROSIE SPOONER is a Toronto-based independent curator and historian. She holds degrees from the University of Glasgow and the University of Bristol, where her work focused on transnational cultural studies, oral history and public history. She has worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) and the Museum of Bristol and is currently InterAccess' Gallery & Membership Coordinator. Intro to Wearable Technologies & Soft Circuits* When: Tuesday, June 21st, 7-10pm Instructors: Ken Leung & Erin Lewis Price: $45 ($35 InterAccess members) About the workshop: Soft circuits are electronic circuits made wearable through the use of conductive thread and conductive fabric. In wearable electronics, circuitry design and application are made with the body in mind. This workshop will introduce you to the world of wearable conductive materials as well as specific techniques for their application on the body. You will learn to construct soft analog components such as wearable switches, flex and force sensors, soft pressure matrices and even fuzzy, directional 'stroke' sensors. You will also learn to think about the body and its movements in an entirely different way: as a means to actuate electronics! This workshop is great for crafters, makers, DIYers, electronic hobbyists, and anyone looking to include the dimension of the body and soft analog electronics into their projects. About the instructors: ERIN LEWIS is an emerging artist who is currently studying Integrated Media at OCAD University, with a minor in Wearable Technology. She works predominately with electronics and video in an installation setting. Erin has released video work with the National Film Board of Canada, exhibited work in Nuit Blanche, and conducted live video performances across Toronto and Europe. She enjoys grapes, kittens, and real-time data feeds. KEN LEUNG is a multidisciplinary designer and artist residing in Toronto with strong interests in wearable technology, physical computing, and interface design. Ken's interactive work has been exhibited at Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone Hotel, and Harbourfront Center, and he is currently working with the Mobile Experience Lab and Social Body Lab at OCAD on various locative and wearables projects. Ken has a background in Psychology, computer programming, digital media, and Industrial design. Intro to Lilypad Arduino* When: Tuesday, June 28th, 7-10pm Instructors: Ken Leung & Erin Lewis Price: $45 ($35 InterAccess members) About the workshop: The Lilypad Arduino is a programmable microcontroller specially designed for use in wearable tech and e-textiles projects. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the Lilypad and its suite of sensors and accessories, teach you how to interface the Lilypad with soft circuits, and guide you through the basics of writing Arduino code to add fun interactive behaviors to your wearables projects. Hands-on exercises and a variety of example projects will be used to explore the exciting possibilities of this technology. About the instructors: Please see above. * Certain materials will be needed for these three wearables workshops, which participants can either bring with them or purchase at InterAccess. Please enquire about the material list and costs when enrolling for any of the workshops in the Wearables Mini Series. |
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Topics / E-Textiles and Craft / Wearable Tech Workshop Series in Toronto, Canada
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on: June 07, 2011, 04:29:03 pm
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Please find below information for a workshop series in Wearable Tech/E-textiles hosted at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto, Canada. If you have any questions, please PM me! http://interaccess.org/workshops/series.phpIntro to Sewing*When: Tuesday, June 14th, 7-10pm Instructor: Rosie Spooner Price: $45 ($35 InterAccess members) About the workshop: This workshop will introduce the basics of sewing, both by hand and using a domestic sewing machine. We will make small bags that participants can take away with them, and also use at the next two wearables workshops where they will learn how to soup up their sewn creations with sensors and LEDs. This workshop is designed to partner with both Intro to Wearable Technologies & Soft Circuits and Intro to Arduino, teaching participants the introductory sewing skills needed for these two workshops, as well as basic, handy sewing tips and techniques like making button holes, sewing in zippers and following patterns. About the instructor: ROSIE SPOONER is a Toronto-based independent curator and historian. She holds degrees from the University of Glasgow and the University of Bristol, where her work focused on transnational cultural studies, oral history and public history. She has worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) and the Museum of Bristol and is currently InterAccess' Gallery & Membership Coordinator. Intro to Wearable Technologies & Soft Circuits*When: Tuesday, June 21st, 7-10pm Instructors: Ken Leung & Erin Lewis Price: $45 ($35 InterAccess members) About the workshop: Soft circuits are electronic circuits made wearable through the use of conductive thread and conductive fabric. In wearable electronics, circuitry design and application are made with the body in mind. This workshop will introduce you to the world of wearable conductive materials as well as specific techniques for their application on the body. You will learn to construct soft analog components such as wearable switches, flex and force sensors, soft pressure matrices and even fuzzy, directional 'stroke' sensors. You will also learn to think about the body and its movements in an entirely different way: as a means to actuate electronics! This workshop is great for crafters, makers, DIYers, electronic hobbyists, and anyone looking to include the dimension of the body and soft analog electronics into their projects. About the instructors: ERIN LEWIS is an emerging artist who is currently studying Integrated Media at OCAD University, with a minor in Wearable Technology. She works predominately with electronics and video in an installation setting. Erin has released video work with the National Film Board of Canada, exhibited work in Nuit Blanche, and conducted live video performances across Toronto and Europe. She enjoys grapes, kittens, and real-time data feeds. KEN LEUNG is a multidisciplinary designer and artist residing in Toronto with strong interests in wearable technology, physical computing, and interface design. Ken's interactive work has been exhibited at Nuit Blanche, The Gladstone Hotel, and Harbourfront Center, and he is currently working with the Mobile Experience Lab and Social Body Lab at OCAD on various locative and wearables projects. Ken has a background in Psychology, computer programming, digital media, and Industrial design. Intro to Lilypad Arduino*When: Tuesday, June 28th, 7-10pm Instructors: Ken Leung & Erin Lewis Price: $45 ($35 InterAccess members) About the workshop: The Lilypad Arduino is a programmable microcontroller specially designed for use in wearable tech and e-textiles projects. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the Lilypad and its suite of sensors and accessories, teach you how to interface the Lilypad with soft circuits, and guide you through the basics of writing Arduino code to add fun interactive behaviors to your wearables projects. Hands-on exercises and a variety of example projects will be used to explore the exciting possibilities of this technology. About the instructors: Please see above. * Certain materials will be needed for these three wearables workshops, which participants can either bring with them or purchase at InterAccess. Please enquire about the material list and costs when enrolling for any of the workshops in the Wearables Mini Series. |
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