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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Creating a Board Game

This subject will use the essence of game design and conceptualizing to create a compelling and emotional story. The end point is to drive that story through a line strong enough to capture people to pursue a certain idea or journey. At the end, the goal is to create a strong and emotional storyline and to explore, graphics, branding, character conceptualization, programming languages, and technologies to create a game, based on a mythological story of a well-known culture.

Is also important to look at some precedents in the game and movie spectrum. Companies such as Thatgamecompany’s concepts are developing are trying to create different and compelling stories like Journey and the coming soon Sky; These games using social interactions inside of the stories using different communications techniques to help each other integrated into the gameplay. Telltale Videogames is also using storytelling trying to create twist and strong stories using comics, TV series and books.

One of the main source of inspiration for the visual game and interaction is the books of death and the sun in The Mummy filmographic saga especially the key puzzle when opening the book. Also, the well-known Jumanji game board and the “magical” way that the gameplay is revolve around the movie itself.

Egypt: A tale of Light, is a role-playing board game focused on the creation of the universe by using ancient stories and cultural facts to teach backgrounds, languages and stories about and antique culture; Balancing the fact of using games as an educational medium and the story and interaction of the audience.

The storyline will revolve around the mythological story of creation in Egyptian culture specifically, the Heliopolitan creation myth. The game storyline starts as the beginning of the mythical tale where “Masses of turbid waters covered by absolute darkness, a darkness that was not the night, because it had not yet been created, was the infinite ocean known by the Egyptians as the primordial ocean Nun, which contained all the elements of the cosmos.”

Link to the Complete process

Materials:

Laser Cut Wood, Neodymium Disc Magnets, Cooper Tape, Arduino Uno, Servo, SMD Leds

Game demo Game demo2

Instead of creating a project that I would use only one time for some special reason like an event or a show, I wanted to create a tool for making sound that I could continue to play and develop for a long time. I am a musician who loves making strange sounds and textures with my bass guitar so creating a guitar amp developed naturally. I started to create drawings of different variations of the amp in my sketchbook. As I continued to draw the amp, I thought of how I could remove the “cabinet” of the amplifier made from wood and use fabric instead. Subconsciously I was thinking about food or cooking at one point and an image of a meatball came to mind. Meat could be elegant and fancy, it could be wholesome and represent something special or it go the other way, brutal and messy. The combination of a meatball and guitar amp sounded very bizarre. I jumped right in…

The entire project took me way out of my comfort zone and I am grateful to have had the chance to learn how to build my own musical instruments using fabric/ craft materials.

I have used the instructables interface to create a project profile for my final Computational Craft project.  Please check out the link to my Meatball Guitar Amp prototype.

Meatball Guitar Amp Prototype

Kind regards,

Andrew James Sapala

www.ajsapala.com

This week, we made a flip dot on class. At first, after connecting it to the circuit, it is hard to tell whether it spun. After adding a mark, it can been seen that it spun.

1. Magnetic beads (2)
2. Magnet wire
3. Yarn & Crochet needle
4. Large-hole beads
5. Conductive thread
6. Non-conductive thread
7. ATtiny85
8. Transistors (2)
9. IN4001 Diode (2)
10. 100K Ohm Resistors (2)
11. 100 Ohm Resistors (2)
12. 3.7V 500mAh Lipo batteries (2)
13. JST sockets (2)
14. Laser-cutable wood
15. 120gsm papers: 2 colors green & blue

Tools:

1. Soldering iron
2. Soldering wire
3. Laptop
4. ATtiny programmer board (optional)
5. Wire cutter
6. Glue gun

Step-by-step:

• Step 1: Make the two flip dots by creating 2 coils (each consists of at least 50 rounds) out of magnetic wire. Use extra wire to secure the two coils together. Use a non-conductive thread to tie a magnetic wire in between the two coils.
• Step 2: From this point on, refer to the schematic below. Connect the two flip dots according to the schematic. Tip: connect the bottom coils to each other, and the top coils to each other. 
• Step 3: Laser cut the statement piece and the paper. Here I chose the tear drop shape to compliment the round shape of the flip dot. But the statement can take any form.
• Step 4: Use the programming board to upload the below code to the ATtiny:

void setup() {
// initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
digitalWrite(2, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(2000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(2, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW // wait for a second
digitalWrite(3, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(2000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(3, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW // wait for a second
}

• Step 5: Solder in the ATtiny, Transistors, diode, resistors and JST socket and connect the statement to the rest of the necklace
• 
• Step 6: Plug in the battery and watch the flip dots flip!

    Takeout LAMP

I got the inspiration for doing this project base on my daily observation. During today's life if trying to find a target to describe it with no doubt high speed will definitely be one of it.
 We enjoy multiple changes every day like the born of the new technics.It changes our original way of meeting friends also dating and learning even working.



But as Dale Carnegie said that,"Every story will normally have two sides." that means it is an important technique to very thoroughly look at 'things' and rationally analyze it. With no doubt, modern lifestyle can bring countless convenience meanwhile It is also the main reason let the most original and also valuable things despaired.

The take out lamb is base on this, singly about food people who live in the city already get used to taking out, sadly they forget the interesting part of home cooking making food and enjoy it with friends or family together. It is not only will be the missing of home cooking only. This is more about the missing of the original way of family time, friends getting around together, and the culture of food.

Sometimes times people during today really should get slow down about their lifestyle and try to filter a little bit or even just think twice about the ‘new things’.

In this assignment, I create a lobster graphic which body can shrink and moved when the battery is on.

I love embroidery a lot. So in this work-in-class assignment, I used 2 colors of thread to cover the circuit. And I think is pretty cute!