Folk Wisdom Wearables, Part 2: A Watched Pot Never Boils The saying “A watched pot never boils” is used to describe the phenomenon of time seemingly slowing to a halt whenever your mind is consumed with waiting for something. I took this idea to its literal and logical conclusion and created a wearable that will […]

Storm’s A Comin’ 2.0 Materials PN2222A Transistor – NPN bipolar junction transistor, used for general purpose low-power amplifying or switching applications (EBC pinout) 1N4001 Diode – blocking voltage 50 V Code 104 0.1µF Ceramic Capacitor 220 Ohm Resistor (red red brown gold) LiPo 3.7 V battery MKR1010 Small Vibration Motor I ran the following code […]

ASSIGNMENT: Create a garment that expresses a message or information to those around you. IDEA: Dancer’s wings with sound reactive LEDs MATERIALS Flora RGB Smart NeoPixel version 2 – Sheet of 20 FLORA – Wearable electronic platform: Arduino-compatible – v3 Adafruit Microphone Amplifier Breakout 8 yards of lightweight, semi-transparent fabric (found for free in the ITP Soft Lab) 8 yards of lightweight, semi-transparent 1.25″ width ribbon (Botani Trimmings) […]

Assignment: Create a new sense using wearables There is a piece of folk wisdom here in the US that says one can feel it in their bones when the weather is changing. While this lends itself to more than a few caricatures of old codgers sitting on the porch, there is some anecdotal evidence that […]