๐Ÿงถ โœ’๏ธ We present IntelliTex, a low-cost and highly accessible double-coating fabrication method for washable and reusable functional textiles with customized input functionalities. To support user customization, we enrich the design space of double-coating by exploring various coating methods and diverse textiles to be coated. We further contribute a comprehensive library of input components and an online document to make our approach accessible to novice users. With our method, we hope to support designers, makers, and researchers to easily create functional textiles ready to use in everyday life.

Links: ๐Ÿ“„ paper | ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ online documentation

Collabotators: Yuecheng Peng, Danchang Zhang, Haotian Zhang, Yue Yang.

Advisor: Guanyun Wang, Ye Tao.

Specifically, off-the-shelf textiles are firstly coated with conductive carbon black using pen ink, which endows textiles with rich sensing capabilities, such as pressure, stretch, slide, and temperature. Secondly, textiles are coated with polyurethane to enhance the sensing stability over wash cycles for good reusability.