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Final Project Post

As a team we created an armband that interacts with an application to vocalize the word that coordinates with what was pressed on the armband. The armband contained five lines of conductive thread that ran over the surface of it to the Arduino board on the back of the armband. […]


Weekly Update #6

1. An image 2. A Listing of accomplishments made by all group members for the previous week Michael and Sam continued work on the app.  They fixed some bugs so that the app works more smoothly.  They also got the bluetooth aspect of the project working. I sewed the conductive thread […]


Weekly Update 5

1. Image 2. A Listing of accomplishments made by all group members for the previous week   Sam and Michael both worked on the app had did some formatting so that it looks better and is easier for the user to use.  They also figured out how to get the […]


Weekly Update #4

1. 2. A Listing of accomplishments made by all group members for the previous week Sam: Did a lot of work on the app.  He got the drop down menu of the app to work as well as the populating of the words that are programmed in.  Sam also accomplished that […]


Weekly Update #3

1. 2. A Listing of accomplishments made by all group members for the previous week Sam: Got the text to speech aspect of the app to work and the app is able to locally store key mappings. Michael: Finished doing a test run of the button with the conductive ink […]


Weekly Update 2

1. 2. A Listing of accomplishments made by all group members for the previous week This week we did test runs with conductive ink and determined how that works.  We figured out how we were going to make the sensors and connect them to the board 3. A description of […]


Weekly Update #1

1. An image or video (this could either be photograph of the current state of your work, a sketch, a diagram, etc) This is a sketch of how the buttons will be arranged and the wiring that we figured out in order to limit the number of pins needed on the […]


Final Project: Texting Shirt

Project Title: Texting Shirt Project Team Members: Michael Lampe and Sam Christensen Project Description: A shirt with a key board screen printed on it using conductive paint and a LED matrix display mounted on the cuff.  A mobile app will interface with your phone via bluetooth so that when you […]


Sylvia Schad- Light up purse

For the warm-up project I created a purse intended to act as a light source when walking in the dark. I programmed the LED lights to turn on automatically when the surroundings are dark using the Lilypad light sensor. I then sewed the light sensor, LEDs and board into a […]