Lara Grant Designs

A much needed trip to the forest and hot springs 🌲♨️
Van camping arrangements; cat snuggling; cats adventuring; hiking up to hot springs; hiking down to rock skipping; delicious food making; rock kerplunking (listen with headphones); fire tending; portrait making ✨

Join us for another session of e-textile explorations. We will get hands-on with the latest e-textile tools and materials, and share techniques, projects and ideas. We will also provide lunch and tasty treats from the Portland Farmers Market.

As well as sharing some of our own projects and materials, we’ll be on hand to help with your projects. If you have something you’re working on, from sketch to prototype to project to product, please don’t hesitate to bring it along.

These e-textile exploration sessions are a great opportunity to meet other people in the region who are working in the e-textile space. As well as Helen and Lara, Darcy Neal and Drew Runner will be there to share their projects and techniques, including textile MIDI controllers and integrating 3D printing into your fabrics.

There will be sewing machines for use and free time for attendees to work on their project, explore, and experiment. Learn what the CETI lab has to offer. If needed, there will be beginner friendly materials and resources available to get you started.

From 1pm to 1.30pm we will provide a delicious lunch, alongside some tasty seasonal treats from Saturday’s PSU Portland Farmers Market. If you’re coming along and you have any dietary requirements please let us know in advance and we will make sure you have something delicious to eat.

Who is this for? Anyone making or using e-textiles in their work, or anyone who wants to learn how to add a new skill into their existing textile or technology practices. If you already know how to sew, knit, felt, craft or embroider but don’t know how to make a circuit, come along! If you already know how to solder, code, breadboard or make PCBs but don’t know how to thread a needle, come along!

Please note that you don’t have to stay for the whole session: drop in to explore materials and learn what the CETI lab has to offer, or stay for the whole session to meet future collaborators and work on your project.

This weekend is the Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh. I’ll be showing various projects including one that is experimental, one that is educational, and one I did with .freed and .blumenkranz way back when. There will also be some resistor color code patches and LED and o-scope pins on hand that I’ll be giving out.

You can attend virtually! There are still tickets for the in-person and virtual spots. The talks and workshops are 🔥. Find out more here—>

Come experiment and explore e-textile and wearable projects at the .institute lab March 29th-30th! All are welcome.
Reserve a spot through the link in my bio.