Knitted Radio

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50 points·peter_d_sherman··8 comments

I am amazed at how technology and older technology come together over time. I was following Dave Griffiths since my early interest in live coding and the program fluxus [0]started. He has a section on his blog on weaving [1] that is pretty cool. I remember when flexible circuits were starting to be integrated into hats and sweaters (LEDs and such). From Jacquard loom to FM sweaters!

[0] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ [1] http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/category/weaving/

I like the format / layout of this site - very low on distractions and easy to look at. looks like its this "touch folio" wp theme: http://dimsemenov.com/themes/touchfolio/

Would be interesting to pair with some of billydiy’s crystal radio ideas: http://billydiy.blogspot.com/2013/06/wearable-battery-free-j...

This is really awesome, but 6m is just not enough range.

What does the equivalent circuit schematic look like?

There is an schematic toward the bottom in the photo montage [0]

[0] http://www.ireneposch.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/knitted...

It's shown in the 8th image in the rotating set of images at the bottom. Some text in one of the images references Tetsuo Kogawa, so I guess the circuit is from here: https://anarchy.translocal.jp/radio/micro/howtosimplestTX.ht...

That is a fascinating little circuit.

It would be really interesting to set up a little weak transmitter as a kind of geocache like find somewhere. You could have a super small microprocessor (ATTINY85) playing an audio loop, and also managing power to only transmit at certain times.

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