2017 - 2020

DESIGN TRANSLATION

TEAM: Richard Vallett, Keith Taylor, Sol Schade, Genevieve Dion, Amy Stoltzfus

Weft knitting innately creates a serpentine path, bottom to top, building row by row while maintain a continuous path. In this case, that path is a capacitive one, surfacing at islands (black carbon-suffused polyamide yarn) to create touch-sensitive buttons. Richard Vallett converted this to a sensing modality, developing an LLM in collaboration with Drexel University's CCI team and Center for Functional Fabrics (myself and textile engineers) built out design rules through demonstrators e.g. 

​

DEMO I | INTERNAL |  Soft Knit Travel Keyboard | Programmed and knitted material samples

DEMO II | INTERNAL for PHILADELPHIA HACKATHON |  Interior Chair Remote | Prototyped and co-built chair demo

TRAINING | w/ AFFOA @MIT |  Touchpad PDK (Product Design Kit) | Built material samples for student exploration

MANUFACTURING AGNOSTIC | w/Apex Mills |   | Built and recorded the SoloBag multi-controller demo

SCALING | for Haartz Corporation |  Knit, prototyped and scaled automotive coated console pilot production