My project is a rash guard or fitness jacket that lights up depending on changes in movement in order to act as a source of motivation and amusement for the user. I used neopixels along the arms and connected them in the back with wires hidden with a blue fabric hand […]
This week I finished my cad drawings and attached the other LED strip. The soldering took up most of my time this week and it was really difficult trying to solder the neopixels. I have been working on trying to get the code to work for velocity. Even though the […]
This week I sewed the lilypad and accelerometer to the rash guard and connected the led strip as well. I started working on soldering the wires to the other side of the led strip but couldn’t manage to solder it properly. Later today I am going to pick up fabric […]
This week I finished soldering the accelerometer and the neopixel strip to the lilypad. I have been working on coding. I have been recording numbers from the accelerometer and have tried out different code with the neopixels. I have been working on combining the accelerometer and neopixel code and have […]
Accomplishments: I re-soldered the wires to the accelerometer. I connected the accelerometer and got reasonable values. I redesigned the rash guard to hide the accelerometer with 3D printed pieces that I made. I bought a rash guard instead of using the wetsuit that I bought. I decided to do this because […]
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 […]
This week I worked on the accelerometer portion of my project. I soldered wires to the accelerometer because when I tried using conductive thread it was too close together. After that, I used alligator clips to hook up the accelerometer and ran some basic code to get numbers. I also […]
Project Title: Speed Rashguard Project Team Member: Erica Lewis Project Description I would like to create a rashguard that changes color depending on movement. For example, at slower speeds it might show a yellow color where at faster speeds it might show a green color. It would be ideal to […]
I designed a necklace that lights up when there is light and the lights stop where they are in the pattern in the dark. I 3D printed the piece that holds the lights and made a removable chain piece that wraps around one of the shoulders. If I had more […]