Resources

This is not exhaustive yet. We will continue updating it throughout the semester.

At Parsons

ARC (Academic Resource Center) Laser cutters and 3D printers galore. All of you should use this once during the semester.

Documentation Sites

For tutorials and inspiration. Basically black holes of internet click throughs.
Margarita Benitez (Truly exhaustive)
How To Get What You Want (You should explore this often)
Kit of No Parts
3lectromode. Avant-garde crafting and consulting in fashionable technologies (This is fairly new, and it is fantastic.)
High Low Tech Group @ MIT
Open Materials
ITP’s Physical Computing Page
Their sensor workshop site is also fantastic.
Soft Circuit Saturdays

People

They will come up again and again – get to know them well. Links coming soon. Google for now.
Leah Buechley
Catarina Mota
Adrian Freed
Hannah Perner-Wilson
Jie Qi
Kate Hartman
Anna Valgårda
Marcelo Coehlo
Jamie Zigelbaum
Lara Grant
Sarah Grant
Kaho Abe
Becky Stern


Blogs

To browse or include on your regular checklist.
How to Get What You Want
Adafruit’s Wearable Tech Blog
E-Textile Summer Camp
Open Materials
Materiability Research Network You must join to access
Bitcraft Lab
Fashioningtech
Eyebeam Computational Fashion
Soft Circuit Saturdays No longer publishing, but good stuff.

Arduino blog
Make
Popular Science
Hackaday

Creator’s Project
Creative Applications
F.A.T. Lab

We-make-money-not-art
Soft Circuits
Architectradure

Iheartswitch
Mocoloco
Notcouture


Tutorials

Please include anything else fun that you think might be of interest!
Wet Felting
Switches
LEDs in Parallel and Series
Instructables
Leah Bucheley Tutorials
Ladyada
Physical Computing
Make Magazine
Lab.thebrothersmueller ( thermochromatic-ink )


Courses + Research

Coming soon.
School of Making, Machines and Make-Believe Berlin
Computational Textiles Group
Smart Textiles Design Lab Blog at The Swedish School of Textiles