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