%0 Book
%A Leah Buechley
%A Kylie Peppler
%A Michael Eisenberg
%A Yasmin Kafai
%D 2014
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1523-9543
%@ 9781453909416
%T Textile Messages
%B Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0941-6
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109415
%X Textile Messages focuses on the emerging field of electronic textiles, or e-textiles – computers that can be soft, colorful, approachable, and beautiful. E-textiles are articles of clothing, home furnishings, or architectures that include embedded computational and electronic elements. This book introduces a collection of tools that enable novices – including educators, hobbyists, and youth designers – to create and learn with e-textiles. It then examines how these tools are reshaping technology education – and DIY practices – across the K-16 spectrum, presenting examples of the ways educators, researchers, designers, and young people are employing them to build new technology, new curricula, and new creative communities.
%K home furnishings, architectures, electronic elements, clothing
%G English