On June 21, Wonder’neath is presenting Wearable Electronics 2: Sensing, a day-long workshop by artist Catherine Euale, @slimy_futures! 

Wearable Electronics 2: Sensing
Full-day workshop | 10am – 5pm

Ready to take your wearables practice further? This full-day workshop builds on the foundations from Wearable Electronics 1 and expands into the world of soft sensors, textile-based tools for reading pressure, bend, and position, and makes them come to life through code.

Using sewable microcontrollers and an introduction to Arduino IDE, you'll learn how resistive materials can be shaped into custom sensors that respond to how your body moves, bends, and presses. We'll also look at how conventional sensors can be incorporated into soft and wearable applications, and explore the broader world of actuators: outputs that let your garment respond with light, movement, vibration or sound.

By the end of the day you'll have built and tested at least one functional soft sensor integrated with a microcontroller, and have the vocabulary and skills to keep experimenting on your own.

What we'll cover:

• Basic sensors and actuators

• How resistive materials work and how to build with them

• Pressure, bend, and tilt (position) sensors (recap from Wearables 1)

• Conventional sensors overview and how to incorporate into soft and wearable applications

• Intro to microcontrollers

• Basic Arduino IDE and repositories for open-source code

Who this is for: This workshop is designed for people who have completed Wearable Electronics 1, or who have equivalent hands-on experience with soft circuits, conductive thread, and basic e-textile construction. Some basic understanding of circuit diagrams is helpful. Comfortable sewing basic stitches. No coding experience required.

What to bring: A computer with the latest version of Arduino IDE. All other materials and tools will be provided.

The session will run from 10 am -5 pm on June 21, 2026 at Wonder’neath, 2482 Maynard Street.

Catherine is a Venezuelan-Canadian bio-artist, citizen scientist, and storyteller, dedicated to deepening our relationships with the more-than-human. Her practice blends biology, conceptual art, digital fabrication, and open-source citizen science to create immersive, research-based pieces that explore the boundaries of interspecies communication, bioethics, and speculative futures.