{"id":604,"date":"2014-12-08T02:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/?p=604"},"modified":"2014-12-08T02:58:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T02:58:52","slug":"127-typesafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/2014\/12\/08\/127-typesafe\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/7 TypeSafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s activities:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Got a nice sweatband and used it to build the first, rough prototype of my device. This involved quite a \u00a0bit of stitching, soldering, connecting things with wires, and taping them to other things. Here is what the prototype looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/12\/Prototype1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/12\/Prototype1-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Prototype1\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/12\/Prototype1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/12\/Prototype1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;ve also written a good chunk of the Arduino code, though the meat &#8211; activity and posture inference &#8211; is still missing.<\/p>\n<p>Problems encountered:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; My first attempt at prototype didn&#8217;t work at all.\u00a0IMU was unreliable, due to wiring issues, and I also had a few shorts due to stitching issues\u00a0(stitching \u00a0on this wristband is not as easy as on a rectangular piece of fabric).<\/p>\n<p>Successes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0All of the hardware problems that plagued me before seem to have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m behind my original schedule, but reasonably confident that I&#8217;ll have a working prototype in time for the showcase. It just won&#8217;t be as full-featured or as pretty as what I originally envisioned.<\/p>\n<p>Plan for next week:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Implement the activity and posture inference in software.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Demonstrate a working prototype of the device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Make a poster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s activities: &#8211; Got a nice sweatband and used it to build the first, rough prototype of my device. This involved quite a \u00a0bit of stitching, soldering, connecting things with wires, and taping them to other things. Here is what the prototype looks like: &#8211; I&#8217;ve also written a good chunk of the Arduino &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/2014\/12\/08\/127-typesafe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12\/7 TypeSafe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}