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Progress is being made on outfit #1.\u00a0 I’ve ordered the leather for the pants and gotten yarn for the hoodie sweater.\u00a0 I worked through how to assemble the support structure for the extendable hood.\u00a0 I spent the weekend 3D printing a support base for the collar and motors to help everything stay stable.\u00a0 The servo motors I purchased worked perfectly with the Adafruit motor shield.\u00a0 They’re very tiny and quite strong, so I think they’ll work just fine.\u00a0 Tomorrow I’m going to finish assembly and testing of the collar\/hood support and drape the fabric portions of the sweater.\u00a0 I’m also hoping to start machine knitting the fabric.<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to get a little concerned about the viability of the capacitive sensing apparatus.\u00a0 I’ve tried a variety of techniques (adding more resistance, adding a non-conductive layer to shield, applying smoothing to the sensor readings) and things still seem to be all over the board.\u00a0 Also, I haven’t been able to get the range I want.\u00a0 I’m going to run the mock-up past a couple of people this week, but if I can’t get a solid outcome I’m going to pursue plan B, namely a different sensor technology.\u00a0 I’m considering this product from Sparkfun:<\/p>\n

\"12785-02\"<\/a>https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/12785<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems fairly straightforward to use with a decent range and very small package.\u00a0 I want to make sure that I’m not wasting my time getting hung up on unproductive technology exploration instead of making progress.<\/p>\n

I’ve been doing a good amount of research on the next outfit, which will be a dress that has a hem that inflates when triggered.\u00a0 I’m researching materials and potential inflation methods now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress is being made on outfit #1.\u00a0 I’ve ordered the leather for the pants and gotten yarn for the hoodie sweater.\u00a0 I worked through how to assemble the support structure for the extendable hood.\u00a0 I spent the weekend 3D printing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}