Welcome To SmartTShirt Open Source Project
An initiative of Smartfeld - St Gallen - Switzerland
Who is the SmartTShirt for?
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Education
All-inclusive activities and projects to teach coding through an applied project, Visual programming or simulation approach.
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Scientists, hackers
Accessible, open-source, hackable. Major strengths for experimentation and sharing of knowledge and expertise.
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Associations, clubs
Easy to implement open source solution to unleash new and different way of learning to code.
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Parents
Learning by doing - learn to code through an applied project approach.
Learning to Code in a Fun and Unique Way!
SmartTShirt is an initiative of Smartfeld.
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Innovation project that combines St Gallen textile history with Coding. -
Designed by educators. -
Open source architecture. -
Easily scallable.
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Open Source Architecture
SmartTShirt was built following open source design patterns
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Raspberry PI
controls different hardware parts of the Smart T-Shirt.
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SmartTShirt Client
The TShirt itself.
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SmartTShirt Server
Management of all SmartTShirt clients.
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Network
WiFi used to interconnect and communicate.
OPEN SYSTEM
Main ideas behind SmartTShirt project are
Project is using open source software (OSS) standards, frameworks and libraries. Design features are customizable as teachers and/or kids can adapt the learning experience.
Pluggable architecture that offers an easy way to plug & play new hardware or software components (as, e.g. available in the Adafruit environment etc.). Design implements important aspects of ergonomic design.