Squeezing things

I made a resistive yarn ball that gives more resistance when you squeeze it from the "How to Get What You Want" guide (sounds suspiciously like a self-help book) found at kobakant.at. It is a very approachable guide on how to make variable resistors and switches with textiles. Tomorrow I'm going to attempt to wrap another conductive ball with an accelerometer inside as control for an experimental instrument I am attempting to make musical, the interface being based around squeezing and turning this conductive ball.

 In addition, I finally looked into the outcomes of the Guthman competition and there is a video of a very similar interface for an instrument called "

ELEKTRISK ORANSJE"

(homage to the Sonic Banana?)

of which some entertaining video documentation can be found here

I once found this postcard from Poland with a really strange looking hotdog on it

More on this later,

isaac