{"id":169,"date":"2016-02-16T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/?p=169"},"modified":"2016-02-16T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:15:24","slug":"light-up-doormat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/2016\/02\/16\/light-up-doormat\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Up Doormat &#8211; Sarah Friedland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8KAXXloCxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For my warm-up project, I continued a my embroidery project from last semester. The purpose of the project was to map something so I chose to map my life by making a doormat that would light up when the embroidered feet were stepped on, symbolizing that the person who is stepping there has been where I have been.<\/p>\n<p>The project posed a lot of problems. First, my conductive threads crossed, causing a short circuit and starting a small fire. Then, the pressure sensors I had would not work, presumably because the conductive threads did not provide enough energy. I finally made my own pressure sensors from felt and conductive fabric but the coding is not perfect so only one foot lights up and it doesn&#8217;t turn off when the sensor isn&#8217;t being stepped on.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I wish the doormat would work as intended but I&#8217;m very proud of the work I put in and the use of problem solving skills. It was a very difficult project to troubleshoot so getting it to work at least a little bit is a big success in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my warm-up project, I continued a my embroidery project from last semester. The purpose of the project was to map something so I chose to map my life by making a doormat that would light up when the embroidered feet were stepped on, symbolizing that the person who is stepping there has been where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}