The cunning plan

photo:Tiff Radmore

Dr Matthew Howard at Kings College London has two research students working on stitched electrical components that are designed to either monitor muscle movements or capture the electrical impulses of the muscles themselves.  The plan for the Parallel Practice project is that I design, programme and embroider simple circuits to start with and stitch on the PCBs or chips.  Matthew and his colleagues will have done the programming to make the sensors capture what we hope to capture and so in turn can feed back potential improvements.  We know we won’t get it right first time; we know we will have technical glitches, bugs in the system, broken threads, short circuits and lots of problems that we don’t even know about, but this is a project about experimenting and collaborating and this is what we intend to do