Arduino

It’s impressive how such a small machine can be so powerful, so flexible, so variable and so capable of different actions. Coding arduino has a straightforward logic to it, which gets really complicated as you try more complex actions. The possibilities here become a matter of imagination more than technological limits, putting us as humans

An interesting find

I found a project that, using arduino, makes earrings respond to sound. The interesting part in this project is how sound is transformed into data, and then into light. The portability of this earrings is also something to look for, in a way that you could start noticing patterns of light depending on the places

Conductive materials

Using conductive threads it was possible to make a weave that could work as much more, for example, a pressure button. This takes weaving to a whole new place where a traditional craft object becomes directly part of the digital realm, giving new information, new inputs and new paths to work on. *

AdaCAD Workshop

A design tool to weave digitally using commands. A tool that feels a lot like Grasshopper and it’s still in development but works great in order to test different weaves and play around to come to interesting results. It may not be finished but it sure is amazing enough to have good findings. *

On Machines and humans

Crafts have always been part of our context, social, economic, mental, geographic. They will keep present as a way of documenting our history as humanity. Although machines are taking over our daily lives, and still have the ability of portraying a moment in time, they will never talk about the mental state of a society,

Loom

An weaving experiment, which is a pattern based on the piano version of a song.

Hand-made & Digital weaving

Waving is not only a hand-made craft, it is now part of a digital work, just as much as the digital is part of the beginnings of weaving. First, having a hands-on experience in this discipline, and then using Rhino and Grasshopper to imitate it, it was possible to see how both processes have a

On Weaving

The process of weaving has a naturallity in it which makes it feel like a truly organic form. The relationship between the material and the structure, the even patterns, the space for it to change, it would feel as if it could adapt to circumstances even in its own limitations, just as a leaf could

Encoding Environment

A process in which a different combination of processes get together to experience unpredictable results, which transforms the making into a spiral of uncertainty. Using Rhino, Grasshopper, and an image, it is possible to transform pixels into pattern data which can be used to determine concentrated points of certain information, and use them as a

On “The Sympathy of Things”

As we move in an apparently straightforward direction with technology, it seems a natural path to wonder about the values of creation, from art to design. First we have this strange relationship with machines. Are we controlling them or are they controlling us? They definitely have changed the way we live on a daily basis,