Project Title: Textrr

Project Team Members: Michael Lampe and Sylvia Schad

One part shirt, one part arduino, one part conductive ink and a few more parts love and careful coding.  We plan to create a shirt which is capable of sending (At first) texts and later is also capable of allowing the user to view the texts.  Pretty much, our goal is to utilize the cell phone for what it is, a ubiquitous mobile computer with an array of communication devices to move texting from something you do on a screen to something you can just do naturally.

Sketch : Sketch

Inspiration:

• Michael and Sylvia’s presentation

Materials and Costs:

• $25 – Conductive Ink
• $25 – Silk Screen and Chemicals
• $45 – Dress Shirt(s)
• $45 – Arduino Board
• $10 – Bluetooth Module

COST: $150

Current Progress:

All of the necessary supplies have been ordered and should be here in the next few days.

Timeline:

• March 3rd: Plan circuit on shirt
• March 10th: Screen printing practice run – mission accomplished
• March 17th: Legit screen printing – mission accomplished.
• March 28th: Mobile application prototype – mission accomplished.
• April 14th: Project complete

Fallback Plans:

If we can’t get the full keyboard to work on the shirt, we will resort to trying to complete a T9 style keyboard and removing the flexible LED display matrix from the shirt as well.