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- IM Blanky is a blanket that exists in real space and virtual space simultaneously. If you move the blanket in real space, a virtual mesh moves along with it.
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IM BLANKY is a blanket with an IP address. The basic v. 1.0 is self-modeling, which means that it is wirelessly linked to a digital model that registers and reprocesses its changing state in real time. The built-in capacity to situate and represent itself in space and time points to a most primitive and essential form of cognition — the sense of one
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Blanket:
Materials: green two-tone Taffeta, nickel coated silver fabric, conductive and non-conductive thread, silver plated beads, glass beads, leather (back), resistors, multiplexers, LilyPad (back).
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Blanket Schematic Circuit
The blanket measures 7
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Computational Diagram
The data from each sensor determines the local tilt direction at the reading site; the readings from neighboring sensors establish elevation and orientation in 3D. The mapping of each vector against the entire field completes the overall picture.
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Circuit Schematic
16 Multiplexers receive seven inputs each from the tassel
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Circuit prototype
Hard-wire blanket circuit, prototype with Arduino.
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- Conductive soft circuit detail
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Soft tilt sensors:
The shape of the petals and their distance from one another, were calibrated for maximum contact with the tassel
(soft) Hardware:
The blanket measures 7