Making and Gallery

Making Tutorials

Tip:When using conductive tape cut the silver not the white. Cut the tape not the backing. It saves having to separate the tape from the backing.

Making Gallery

Bubble Wrap Dress

Bubble Wrap Dress made using the TapeBlock materials

  • A model in a white dress that is made of bubble wrap with a foam tile bodice. There is a red belt and blue front decorative section.

  • A model in a white dress that is made of bubble wrap with a foam tile bodice. The dress is lit up by blue LED lights in the collar, arms and skirt. There is a red belt and blue front decorative section.

Tronicboard

Custom made PCB that are designed to be accessible. They can be clipped, plugged, sewn or taped.

A green pub with a black buzzer. It is connected to 2 alligator clips that have twisted cables.
Five rows of simple circuit boards with a hand reaching towards them
A red, yellow and green circuit board they are taped to a table with grey tape. The red board has a battery, the middle board has a white button and the green one has a fan.
A brown woman sitting at a wooden table holding a circuit and has several other boards around. In the background is a green open office
3 PCBs in a white template. There are banana plugs and cables connecting the board together
Several PCBs connected together with banana plugs, alligator clips and conductive tape

Conservation Awareness

Making physical object to promote animal conservation and awareness

A bandicoot puppet half way out of a wooden box
A long haired bandicoot puppet on a wooden floor
A bandicoot puppet in a wooden box lit by a red light
A model suckerfish that is grey and has darker spots
Four grey model suckerfish in a line on a black background

Electronic Textile

Dry Felting

A dry felted artwork with a lighthouse on the left on top of cliffs and rough blue water at the front.
A dry felted picture of a house in amongst green trees with daffodils and flowers at the front.
A round dry felted picture with three red and yellow flowers with yellow lights in the middle

Assistive Technology

Braille keyboards

  • A yellow box with three red and three green buttons arranged as a braille cell. Two blue buttons below.

  • A yellow box with three red and three green light arranged as a braille cell. A yellow buttons is in the middle

  • A black box with three red and three green buttons arranged as a braille cell. Two yellow buttons below.

  • A black box with three red and three green light arranged as a braille cell. A yellow buttons below.

  • A long black bridge shape with 7 buttons on the end and three on the front.

  • A close up of the end with 7 buttons on the end and three on the front. A braille display is on the top