Fashion forward: Researchers, designers debut new tech on New York City runway

Microsoft researchers teamed up with designers at the Brooklyn Public Library’s BKLYN Fashion Academy (opens in new tab) to enhance the storytelling power of their garments using custom-made plug-and-play microcontroller technology. The collaboration culminated in a fashion show on May 3 at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library in New York City. The tech was the first application of Project Alava, which aims to lower the barriers of entry to programming by creating microcontroller-based systems that are easy to construct, code and debug. Alava leverages the open-source framework powering Microsoft MakeCode (opens in new tab) and the bus-based communication protocol JACDAC (opens in new tab).

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