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Soft sensor kits from Hannah Perner-Wilson

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Hannah, aka Plusea, is something of a legend in the soft-circuits community. We have covered her open-source work in soft circuits and sensors many, many times before. She has no fewer than 37 tutorials published on Instructables, 28 of them โ€œfeatured,โ€ almost all of which cover low-cost soft-circuit devices of her own design. Now she is selling kits for a few of her more popular soft sensor inventions, none of which will set you back more than $15. Shown above is her Neoprene Bend Sensor Kit.


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Knit stretch sensor. Pre-woven conductive and non-conductive yarn.


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Neoprene Pressure Sensor/Matrix KIT. Neoprene, Velostat, conductive thread and stretch conductive fabric.


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Hannah isโ€ฆ

โ€ฆcurrently a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group lead by Leah Buechley at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores material properties for their use in creating handmade human-computer interaction scenarios. Focusing on the documentation and development of available and affordable technology that allows more of us to DIY, modify and fix.

You can see more of Hannahโ€™s work at her personal site.
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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't โ€“ Magazin fรผr Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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