Problems or Issues: Since my last progress report I’ve lost significant time to illness*, which have made it not possible for me to pick up the carpet, so that’s #1 priority this week. I also started to work on soldering together the components of my persistence of vision (POV) kit, […]
Accomplishments: Both Alex and Kevin completed the code for the outfit during the last week of class. By adding multiple thresholds the lights illuminate when there is no motion, fade in and out at different rates when there is slow motion and flash at different rates when there is […]
Progress: All of my electronics are here! I also corrected the pattern pieces so they are mostly ready to go! Roadblocks: I didn’t find fabric I liked in NYC, so I will still need to buy fabric, I will need to get that as soon as possible so I can […]
This most recent week of class, I was able to finally get to implementing code and testing the heart rate sensor now that it finally came in later in the previous week. Once I got the code all set to go, I used alligator clips to get the connections set […]
This week I worked on putting together code for the accelerometer and the RGB led strip. I worked on the accelerometer and the led strip separately. I also went to a thrift shop to buy wetsuits to use for the wetsuit top. I am considering attaching the sleeves to a wetsuit […]
1. Image or video: Boom. That’s the substrate I’ll be using as the backbone of the circuit. It’s in a ziploc, so you can’t tell the thickness, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say it’s super thin. It’s also incredibly flexible, to the point I had to […]