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Back by popular demand: our soft-circuit workshop at the V&A.

Bring a sparkle to your sofa and learn to make your cushions light up when you squeeze or rattle them.

By using conductive thread, LEDs, and E-textiles, you will learn how to build a ‘soft circuit’ into a cushion, and make your interiors interactive. The workshop will lead you through embedding electronics into a cushion provided, but feel free to bring your own textiles or garments to embed the circuit into if you wish.

WHEN

Sat 27 July 2013
10:30 – 5pm

WHERE

The V&A Digital Studio, Sackler Centre
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

BOOK NOW via the V&A website

Back by popular demand!

For all you techie women, join our one day introduction to the LilyPad Arduino and get your garments interactive!

During the course of the day you will be introduced to the basics of soft circuitry, some basic electronics, Arduino software, programming, and reading a sensor. At the end of the day you will have a functioning interactive patch, which you can sew onto a garment, bag or cushion cover.

PLEASE BRING WITH YOU:

A piece of fancy fabric of your choice. It is best to use something non-stretchy and stiff, something like cotton or canvas – perhaps with a ‘Christmassy’ twist? ;)

If you want to bring your own laptop, please make sure you have installed the latest Arduino Software on it.

A USB to mini-USB (you are bound to have one somewhere, we thought best not to buy more ;)

Fee: Including LilyPad Arduino £75 + £1.60 booking fee – This includes the LilyPad Arduino, LilyPad Battery Holder and FTDI board.

Not including LilyPad Arduino £35 + £1.60 booking fee – This is for those who do not require a LilyPad Arduino Kit as above. There will not be spares to borrow unfortunately, please make sure you have one for the workshop if you purchase this ticket.

When:

15th December ‘2012 10am – 5pm

Where:

SPACE, 129—131 Mare Street, London, E8 3RH.

Tutor:

MzTEk’s Sophie McDonald

Sign up here!

If you have any queries, please contact us on info@mztek.org.

Please note that this is a women’s workshop only.

As part of the Natural Circuits Barbican weekender MzTEK will be running 6x 2 hour workshops throughout the weekend, so come and make your t-shirt for FREE!

This summer we designed three wearable instruments for a collaboration with Guerilla Science to create the Hacked Human Orchestra. Come make your beatbox t-shirt this weekend and join the phenomenon that is the Hacked Human Orchestra!

You will find us in the main foyer near the canteen from 10am – 6pm Saturday and Sunday.

An introductory workshop with MzTEK at Phoenix Brighton to learn how to create soft circuits and make stitched or wearable electronic and interactive artworks. This course will teach you hot to make a soft circuit toy, in this case a chatbot (or a creature of your choice!), but the skills can be applied to other projects.

Make crochet chains with conductive yarn, sew with conductive thread and make buttons with conductive material.

The workshop is aimed at women only and celebrates Alan Turing Year.

Price:

£20

When:

Saturday 8th December 12pm – 5pm

Where:

Phoenix Brighton, 10–14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, BN2 9NB

Tutor:

MzTEK’s Emilie Giles

Sign up here!

Yesterday Digital Shoreditch kicked off for its second year, celebrating the creative techiness which can be found in East London! MzTEK is very proud to be part of the festival and we’ll be participating in a couple of events this week.

Today MzTEK Co-Founder, Sophie McDonald, will be talking on the ‘Women in Tech’ panel, part of the Innovate day which Queen Mary University and City University London is hosting. The panel will explore how women can be better represented in the digital and technology sectors.

On Friday we’ll be running a drop-in workshop at the Identity day where female delegates can create a mini beetle bot or a soft circuit voodoo ghost! This is absolutely FREE! To order your free ticket scroll down to the bottom of the Identity day page.

We hope to see you there! :)