This is the final presentation project slides
This is the instructable link for the project
https://www.instructables.com/id/AR-Fortune-Telling-Card/
Documentation
For my final, I decided to combine the idea of fidget blankets for Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Seizures and fabric books to make a series of interactive fidget portable pieces for children in which they can play anywhere with them.
Materials use –
I think the hardest part is to think of a good circuit to incorporate into your swatch design, once that is drawn and tested out. The rest will be sewing the circuit and hoping that there isn’t any short circuits that prevent your LED from working.
Then, I sewed the drawn circuits on my fidget pieces!
Link to Instructable page: https://www.instructables.com/id/Fidgety/
For this assignment I created a soft switch to play with the on and off of the LED.
Get inspired by Jie Qi’s soft circuit construction. I am really interested in the connection of the motion of smooth your finger back and forth to trigger the LED light up.
I played with the aesthetics of the circuit. Silver color conductive tape chosen for the simplicity of elegance contrast to the dark navy blue background.
The trick of the circuit is that only when you pressed and the circuit will be completed and the LED will light up. It turns the whole piece of area to be a magical pad when people are pressing back and force, it creates a satisfying loop (at least to me). The potential of this circuit can be scale up and more complex to make a puzzle of switch to let people explore where to press to trigger the LED.
Video Here :IMG_9612
The circuit is completed but the effect is minimal. I think I mix the water too much or the powder is too low. It’s hard to make it right however, I can make it happened in the final project.
Challenge: The mixture is very hard to get it right. As I do not have the basic knowledge of watercolor or brush.
I like how the spring can go back to its original form. This is pretty fun when playing with it. I failed to work on the first try because of the voltage.
Challenges : The calculation of the voltage is a little complex for a beginner.
I like to sewing on this soft fabric, this is a new tech and skills to me. It is a simple circuit but I pretty enjoyed it.
I use paper and conductive tape to make two speakers. And I try to stick the tape in a different number of coils to test the difference between them.
For week 11 exercise, I use the napkin to represent a kid’s heart which like a white paper that without any stain. I use red thread to sewing the flexinol on the napkin to represent that it is easy to give scar to a kid.
Since I failed to upload it for a couple of times, so I put my video on Vimeo.
Link for the video: https://vimeo.com/306477003
