Meg Grant is a researcher, designer and maker of wearable electronics, e-textiles and fabric interfaces. Her educational background if from fashion design and technology, with a major in computer aided design for pattern making. After graduating from fashion school, she spent a few years in the industry before teaching herself to write code. Eventually she ended up working as a front-end develop for over 10 years. Due to her love to programming, she imagined a future that combines computers and clothing, where the physical world around us and the clothes on our body can be a part of the digital world.

After discovering Arduino and DIYers in 2008, she started exploring on ways to integrate the digital world with textiles, through her fascination with the materiality of electronic integration into textiles and apparel. She describes the contrasts between the textile technology and digital systems, along with the conflicts of hard and soft, body and machine, etc. challenging, but also very interesting. As she found the traditional tools for sewing and circuit building insufficient, her first experiments with fashion-tech were very handwork intensive. While this allowed her to really get to know the materials and craft closely, she became interested in discovering new ways to automate and streamline the integration of electronics into textiles for scalability.