For the overall size of your poster, we recommend 18″ x 24″.
If you’d like to print your posters at College Library next Friday, I’ll be working in the DesignLab on the second floor. Printing costs (I believe) are around $3.80 a square foot.
Awesome article on Wearable Tech
Project Poster Guidelines
For the final project showcase, you will need to make a poster for your work. An example of how your poster could look can be found at:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~nmitchel/ds501_data/drawing.jpg
https://blogs.discovery.wisc.edu/wearablecomputing-13/files/2013/12/Smart-Jacket1-682×1024.jpg
The poster should include:
Your Name(s)
Name of the Project
- Include a link to the project page on the class website
Intent
- What the project is intended to do. (One Sentence.)
Inspiration Images
- Images from other projects/designs/ideas that motivated you to undertake this project.
- Cite where they came from.
Project Description (Bullet Point List)
- Why you felt this was important to design
- Why is your project unique
- Examples of how your project could be used
- Where this project could go in the future
Images of the Final Project
- Make them nice
11/30 Lights up Dress Weekly Post
This week I was working on the “Shift Register” again. I was keep working same thing from the last week but added little more. I was founding how many leds can be light up with one shift register with the equal power and how many patterns that I can create from the shift regiester. Same as last week, I used the borad to connect the shift register, 8 leds together and the lilly pad. After I sew and connected each other, I run the program to see that it works or not. And I finally figured out that I can use two blinking patterns and speed of them. This week I did not had problems to solve these patterns without that I cannot control the leds individually. I think that it is the problems with the programming the code but, I don’t really know how to solve that problems. So, I think my dress will only have two blinking patterns with different speed. I think I am little bit behind on my sechedule because I think dealing with the shift register and accelerometer will take more time than I thought and I have no idea how to work throgh them by myself. My plan for next week is that I want to start programming the accelerometer and accelerometer with shift register together.
11/23-Lights up Dress Weekly post
I was working on the “Shift Register” again. I was founding how many leds can be light up with one shift register because last week when I was working with the shift register, all the 8 leds aren’t turned on and when the leds truned on the power wasn’t equal between all the leds. Same as last week, I used the borad to connect the shift register, 8 leds together and the lilly pad. I wasn’t run the program because I just wanted to know how many leds can be light up equally with one shift register. So, I just connected to the computer for the power. The problem I had this week was that I might not able to make the pattern that I want to make because I cannot really control the leds individually. But, I finally figured out how to trun on all the leds equally. I think I am little bit behind on my sechedule becauseI think dealing with the shift register and accelerometer will take more time than I thought. My plan for next week is that I want to finish programming the shift register and start with the accelerometer.
Gaming Gloves 11/30
Hey guys!
Things finally start to work for our side this week. We finally received the Bluetooth module. We had to buy another one because we didn’t receive the first order. Our fabric was also delivered this week so we could start to saw the tip of the fingers for the gloves. Because of all this problems with deliveries the project is late on the schedule, but since the software is something pretty simple to develop it will be easy to get things under schedule again.
Below are some pictures of our work this week.
Until next week!
The tip of the fingers made with a really thin neoprene.
The Bluetooth module.
SAFEBAND – 11/30
- What did you do this week?
We worked on the accelerometer, but we failed to understand what was the problem, the Bluetooth module and the smartphone app.
- Describe the problems you encountered
I think the wiring in the accelerometer must have fried the circuit. The readings we are getting are very inconsistent and they do not make sense. I am afraid we are going to be behind schedule because of it, but hopefully we can work on other parts of the prototype while we wait for the new accelerometer.
- Describe the successes you had
We found out how to connect the bluetooth module to the board and I began the testing with it. Victor worked heavily on the app and the functions Login, List Contact and Add Contact are working properly and he made sure they are connected with firebase as a backend framework
- Are you on schedule?
It depends if the accelerometer is really fried or not. If it is we are will be delayed, but we can work on the app while we wait for the new piece and if it is not then we are on schedule.
- What do you plan to do next week?
Probably order again a new accelerometer, sew the the bluetooth module after finishing the tests and send emails via bluetooh with the smartphone.
11/30 TypeSafe
What I have been up to this week:
1) Got the IMU to work with my LilyPad, was able to get good Euler angle readings. Now we’re cookin’ with gas!
2) I started putting together a physical prototype of a wristband and IMU ring. You can see a physical mockup in the picture. Instead of using a flimsy piece of fabric for the wristband, tomorrow I plan to buy a sweatband and stitch my board and other components into it.
3) I’ve been experimenting with a neat little program called Gobetwino, which offers several useful features for communicating between an Arduino and a PC. I plan to use it for writing sensor data to a spreadsheet and analyzing the output, in order to derive activity and posture classification heuristics.
Current concerns:
1) I’m worried about wiring on the IMU. Specifically, I’m worried that connections might be too flimsy, which could cause the IMU to freeze periodically. I can’t think of a reliable solution, short of soldering the wires to the IMU, which I don’t want to do this early in development.
2) I’m also worried about wires being too thick and rigid, which could constrain the hand movement such that we get badly skewed sensor data for typing motion and posture. Anyone got any nicer, more flexible wires?
TEB Update 11/29/2014
- What did you do this week?
For this week’s work, I soldered all the components onto the printed circuit board and to my surprise everything fit perfectly and went very smoothly. Now in the coming weeks, we’ll see if everything actually works.
- Describe the problems you encountered
One problem I faced was with the USB receptacle. The pins were so close together and I applied too much solder paste and as a result, there was a solder bridge between three pins. This is an easy fix once I get my hands on some solder wick to remove some of that solder.
Another problem I faced was that I realized I forgot to order four 56R resistors that connect to the gate of the MOSFETs. Now these resistors aren’t essential to the function of the circuit so I just placed a wire across the resistor pads to close the circuit.
- Describe the successes you had
One success I had was that all the footprints I custom designed fit the components perfectly.
Another success was the method I used for soldering the tiny surface mount components to the board. First, I applied solder paste to the pads of the components. Then, I very carefully placed the devices on the pads using a fine tweezers bent at a 45 degree angle. The solder paste kept the components in place because of its consistency. I then put them in a toaster oven, set the degrees to 450 Fahrenheit and waited two minutes. I had no issues soldering.
- Are you on schedule?
Yes I am on schedule. Now if my circuit has a problem where it will require me to resubmit a new PCB, then I will be behind schedule.
- What do you plan to do next week?
Next week, I plan to perform tests to ensure the board is functioning properly and if it is, then I will be uploading code and will test it using the thermoelectric cooler.
Cycling Jacket Update
Sorry this is late! Last week’s updates:
Andrew- This week I worked with the electronics to help make sense of the accelerometer data. We found that the pro mini would not work for our project so I ordered new electronics that I look forward to hooking up on Tuesday.
Emma- This week I continues to work on the muslin and ordered the final fabrics. I wanted to order two tones of fabric, a lighter gray and a charcoal. I got a call from the woman packing my order a couple days later telling me that they were out of one of the grays so I chose a red instead. Challenges I ran into include basic draping/sizing challenges since I haven’t done much of it in the past.
The accelerometer issues and slow draping set us back a little bit but we plan on catching up next week.
