Maddy Maxey

I spend my days making things @loomiaco

Madison Maxey is the founder and technical lead at LOOMIA, where she designs technology and processes for seamless integration of e-textiles into everyday objects. She was the first fashion designer to win a Thiel Fellowship.

- 2013 Thiel Fellow and Forbes 30 under 30
- Residencies and creative work at Autodesk, Pratt's BF+DA, The School of Visual Arts, Google Creative Labs
- Has built and designed CNC machines, nitinol / high current circuits and a large, textile-based cap touch matrix
- Advanced 3D modeling and 3D printing skills, 3D modeling / CAD, JavaScript, Arduino and physical computing
- Soft circuits research contributed to the Man vehicle lab at MIT
- Ghost author on a 3D printing textbook highlighting AI algorithms for generative design
- Holds two pending patents for e-textile integration

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