Concept: A scarf that lights up, so that you can make yourself visible while walking at night in the dark.
Design Goals:
DIY
Accessible
Least amount of materials
Safety
Precedents:
Imagined Body by Yuchen Zhang
No contact jacket that sends 80,000 volts if touched.
Saflet allows you to send messages to the police and 
Materials:
1) Paper prototypes for feedback (Focus on role or look+feel)
2) Concept and design goal (What does your design seek to accomplish? Who are you designing for?
Personal desk lamp that reacts to current light conditions an its own position. has 3 states: On (glow (similar to computer glow?)), on (direct) and off. Built in sections to be self supporting yet flexible enough to be easily positionable. Possibly solar charged?
3) Materials list (What do you need to build your design)
knitting supplies: yarn, needles
electronics: lilypad, light sensor, solar panel
4) Prior art and precedents that inspired your design and direction.
tiny usb lamp
crochet rug with led rope light
Jessica
A headpiece that lights up with LEDs to create your very own wearable lamp.
1) Prototype – FLORA
Flora and Neopixel prototype
2) Concept and design goal (What does your design seek to accomplish? Who are you designing for?
The concept for this headpiece (which may become a hat, depending on how the fabrication goes) is a update to ladies’ Art Deco headpieces and is meant to be worn as part of a costume or party attire. It will include a simple switch (metal snap that when connected closes the switch) to turn on the LEDs and may include a mic sensor that would add a whimsical element to it. The embellishments may include wool that has been folding using paper engineering techniques.
3) Materials list (What do you need to build your design)
4) Prior art and precedents that inspired your design and direction.
Art Deco Headpiece
Fashion E-Armor: Cape with Embedded LEDs and Hard Origami Folded Edges
1) Paper Prototype – Will upload images soon.
2) Concept and design goal (What does your design seek to accomplish? Who are you designing for?
With this project, I seek to design a wearable cape with embedded technology and hard folded pleating that would intimidate a potential aggressor. The interior of the piece would be lined with velvet to provide a comforting material touching the wearer. Hard on the outside and soft and reassuring on the inside.
3) Materials list (What do you need to build your design)
4) Prior art and precedents that inspired your design and direction.
The following images are art and fashion precedents that reflect the aesthetic and structural qualities I will be trying to achieve.
Nature Precedents:
The following animals/crustaceans defend themselves in fantastic ways.
The porcupine is of course an easy analogy to the Fashionable E-Armor:
And also the Dresser Crab…
by Joselyn McDonald
For this assignment, i wanted to create a cliche symbol of heart using one LED to put the spectator in an obscure moment. It depends on the spectator to change his/her perception to see the heartbeat visual on the paper or just focus on the LED’s blinks from a small hole which is situated the front of the box. With time, heart beats speed up, to represent the excitement.
Light illusion black box is made with Lilypad, one LED, paper, square box, black tape(to cover the square box), 2 short alligator clips.
For the heart reflection, i cut a rectangular paper. I fold it. Then, i put the paper under the LED to create the heart beat visual.
Design a lamp using the techniques, tools, and materials we have been learning over the last six weeks. Lamp and presentation due Oct. 14. Instructable due Oct. 19. See examples of past projects and inspiration here.
Your theme: Choice
Constraints:
1) MUST use a switch or sensor. RE: You must have a way of controlling the circuit.
2) Must have at least two states (e.g. on/off, fading fast/slow, red/blue, etc)
3) You cannot use jumper wires *unless* it is to connect your circuit traces to the Arduino. In this case, you should consider how to integrate your Arduino into the design. Depending on your time and financial constraints, you may want to explore other types of Arduinos that better fit your design, such as a Lilypad, Flora, Gemma, Arduino Mini, etc.
4) You do not have to use Arduino.
I will be evaluating you along the following categories:
Process
– Paper prototyping interaction and structure
– Grasp of assembly and how to integrate electronics with materials
– Material is appropriate for the project
Concept + Design
– Clear design goal
– Desired interaction accomplished (What should the user be doing or feeling? What action do you want them to perform?)
– Intuitive interface (or convoluted depending on the design goal)
– Articulated audience – who is this for?
Documentation
– Create an Instructable
DUE NEXT WEEK
1) Paper prototypes for feedback (Focus on role or look+feel)
2) Concept and design goal (What does your design seek to accomplish? Who are you designing for?
3) Materials list (What do you need to build your design)
4) Prior art and precedents that inspired your design and direction.
5) Please read ONE of the following and come prepared to share your thoughts on it:
Organic User Interfaces
Pulp-based Computing
Electronic/Computational Textiles and Children’s Crafts
I made a hanging hydrangea lamp that mimics breathing in the darkness. It’s based on an Anthro chandelier (that super casually costs $998, no big). Mine is made out of a paper lantern, with two different sized cupcake liners hot glue gunned on (idea from a DIY genius). There’s a purple LED strip inside, on a lilypad, and it uses the metal skeleton of the paper lantern as a switch. It fades in and out, using pwm.
So I went to Max branner , the chocolate place
and my emotion was love-for-chocolate, so
I used the package box to make a switch without using a breadboard.
This “emotion influencing box” has a few different settings, the default being a startling red alert, which can be switched to something more calming and peaceful by rotating the dial. The wires inside are only used to directly connect the nano pins to the copper tape.
