My goal for this project was to create a craft product for young girls to make, in
order to teach them about empowerment and the value of code: 

I wanted the Neo Pixels and LED’s to  glow bright once the pressure sensors touched.

Precedence:

Sound Reactive Equalizer Skirt

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Working with the following materials:

• Gemma

• Neo Pixels

• 8ohm – speaker

• Conductive Thread

• Resistor

• Conductive tape

• Velostat

• Regular Thread (To sew the edges of the pressure sensor)

• 3V batteries (3 in total)

• 2 x 2032 Coin Cell Battery Holder – 6V output with On/Off switch

• 1 coin cell battery holder

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For The left hand Bracelet that will hold the Gemma

Step One: Cut shape to fit your and and arm (out of moleskin).

Step Two: I cut the shape out from the material you want to use.

Step Three: Draw location for Neo Pixels

Step Four: Sew in Gemma

Step Five: Connect first neo pixel to gemma (continue the additional 3 neo pixels in the design you have created.

Step Six: sew resistor to gemma

Step Seven: sew in pressure sensor to gemma (the sensor should be located under the palm of the hand below the pinky)

Step Eight: Plug in Gemma and modify blink code based on pressure sensor

Step Nine: Add code that incorporates speaker

Step Ten: plug in 2 x 2032 Coin Cell Battery Holder – 6V output with On/Off switch (turn switch on to test)

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For the right hand second Bracelet

Step Eleven: curl ends of LEDS

Step Twelve: sew in LEDs in the design you have created

Step Thirteen: sew in 3V cell battery holder

Step Fourteen: sew in pressure sensor connect to positiveeside of battery holder (pressure sensor should be near the thumb

Step Sixteen: connect the other side of pressure sensor to negative side of battery

Step Seventeen: Place conductive copper tape for design

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Test view the following video to see Demo:

When the pressure sensors meet the NEO Pixels and LED’s should react and glow brighter.

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Challenges:

• sewing
• incorporating sound  
• getting the code to match using two different sets of lights.
• figuring out where the short circuit is happening

Next Steps: Use a stiffer material or fabric.

I attempted to work with flexinol.

Unfortunately the way I weaved the flexinol through the paper the paper does not retract how I intended it to.

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For my final project I would like to propose
Wonder Woman Bracelets using LEDs and magnets.

I am interested in incorporating flexinol on the bracelets but need to work out where on front of the bracelet would fold.

This week I worked with thermochromic ink. I found it interesting but I realized its best to stay away from the acrylic ink in order to get my inks to work correctly.

This week I worked on making speakers using mylar and copper tape.

The speakers have a very simple design because while working with this new roll of copper tape I noticed the copper tape was very thin and flimsy compared to my previous roll of copper tape.

For this assignment i worked on connectors for rapid prototyping.

I love hearing and learning about what countries people are from and where they have travel in the world. Its always fascinating to find out where people have visited and what brought them there.

In addition to knowing where people have traveled I like to map elevation levels. For my midterm I wanted to explore new ways of developing a lamp with multiple switches.

I used developed the look and feel of my lamp from lines that topographical maps contain. I picked one city and outlined its elevation levels from google maps.

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https://www.instructables.com/id/Transparent-Lamp/

I identify as a designer, learner and maker of things.

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Beautiful Stone,

I created a story around a piece of coal that a character wants to purchase.
When the character places the money on the scale once he has placed enough money one the scale and the green LED is lit he will have placed enough money to grab the coal.

I used a pressure sensor and set the range of pressure set for each led to light up.

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Computational Craft

One of my fondest memories as a child I was when my parents would send me to camp. I was a bit of a tomboy so it was usually me and the boys playing soccer in the field and skipping rocks over the lake. Sometimes, if we were lucky we would catch frogs along the lake and put them into peoples cabins.

For this project I made a pressure sensor out of lilly pads and made an origami frog.

At first I made a pressure sensor using conductive copper tape but wanted the lilly pad to be softer so instead I used a conductive fabric tape with velostat, and cotton fabric.