Loom

Loom is a powerful framework for designing new wireless sensor-actuator systems for a wide variety of applications including: environmental sensing instrumentation STEM and STEAM education, musical interface design, physical computing, and interactive environments.

The typical approach to Do-It-Yourself sensor instrument design is to begin from scratch, stitching together a hand full of components and example code. Loom abstracts these complexities into a modular framework that enables rapid prototyping of sophisticated sensor and control systems by combining basic building blocks. Loom kits and software applications teach hands-on fundamentals of wireless sensor and control systems to audiences who are not familiar in fields like electrical engineering or programming. Loom has been used in college classrooms across Science, Engineering, Music, and Arts majors; scientific workshops around the world; and for K-12 STEAM summer programs. Major integrations include compatibility with the MaxMSP graphical programming environment by Cycling’74, MongoDB cloud database and graphing environment, and Google sheets. Scroll to the bottom to see several things students have made with Loom!