{S}crap Sensors

The matter of sensors is entwined with how systems shape the way we see the world. Much of the data that these sensors produce feeds into perceptions of the environment – such as levels of particulate matter in the air, or water depth. The machines that produce these data are material instruments, collecting information in material ways.

{S}crap Sensors responds to the availability of material and resources in making sensors with rubbish or things that we have on hand. Make a speaker by coiling adhesive copper or sewing copper thread into soft materials. You can hear the vibration of materials like plastics when they move from the force between a magnetic field, and an oscillating electromagnetic field made by the coiled copper.