Fabric Nerve Module
This week we had to make a module for class. I wanted to make something soft, flexible, and simple. In some ways an extension of my zipwear projet, my module is a unit of a potentially wearable creation. In figuring out what its design should look like, I went back to thinking about cognitive science and the brain and nerves. Nerves have a soma and axons and dendrites. The axons and dendrites are long extensions that connect the nerves to each other and transmit information.
My modules are star-shaped, with long "legs" that are used to link to each other by being threaded through buttonholes that are sewn into the more central part of the module, and then tied into a knot. They can also potentially send information to each other through these longer parts and buttonholes, if both are lined with conductive thread (which would connect them to some sensor or actuator on the central part of the module).
