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Anuradha Reddy
(dr. - she/her)

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๎Ž๏ธŽ Publications
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๎Ž๏ธŽ Fediverse
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Hello! Iโ€™m an independent design researcher with a critical making practice via craftivisms, hardware hacks, and re-appropriation of data technologies.


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I am an independent design researcher with a critical making practice via craftivisms, hardware hacks and re-appropriations of data-driven technologies. 


Open Hardware Project: Moon-phases + Period tracking Calendar


Research Article: Artificial Everyday Creativity


Open Hardware Talk: Knotty Hardware
Research Workshop: Venetian Drawing Conversations

Research Pictorial: Drawing Conversations Mediated by AI


Research Pictorial: Exploring Kolam As An Ecofeminist Computational Art Practice


Open Hardware Project: BOOB-Factor Authentication in Banjara Embroidery


Open Hardware Project: Internet of Towels - Knotty Articulations



Open Hardware Project: Secure Your Home IoT with the CryptoCrochet-Key
Open Hardware Project: Make Your Own Resistor Cushion


Research Article: Making Everyday Things Talk

Research Workshop: More-Than-Human Design & AI

PhD Dissertation: Researching IoT Through Design
Research Workshop: Encountering Ethics In Data-Enabled IoT

Research Article: The Role of Participation in Designing For IoT

Book chapter: Feeling At Home with the Internet of Things

Research Article: Platform Ethics in Technology

Research Article: Where is the Interface?

Research Project: Thing (Data) Perspectives

Research Project: Ethnography of Open Street Mapping

Research Project: Living with a Smart Plug

Research Workshop: Subverting IoT Futures

Crafting with Crochet As Open Source Hardware ๐Ÿงถ 


Hackspace Magazine Issue#40
I published a tutorial piece in Hackspace magazine (part of RaspberryPi Foundation) to get into the hacker mindset of my research while experimenting with the boundaries of what counts as Open Source Hardware using crochet.

A Resistor Cushion is a pin/needle cushion but for colour-coded resistors. The cushion has been certified as Open Source Hardware (OSHW) under the CERN Open Hardware License (CERN-OHL-1.2) and the documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attributions (CC-BY-4.0) license.

The published tutorial can be accessed via this PDF.

Issue#40 Cover:


Front Image of the tutorial:

The complete magazine issue can be accessed here.