Create a fabric that tells a story through the sense of touch. Document on the Documentation Blog.

Some examples of previous projects:

• Emma and Konrad’s Versatile Jacket
• Cindy’s Alert Slipper
• Sunny’s Angry Chicken
• Flora and Wendy’s Wearable Clicker
• Dylan’s Windchime

Assignment 5 – Arduino on Textiles – Groups of Two – Due Thursday, 3/30.

Materials

• Arduino Uno or DFRobot Beetle
• Wire
• Breadboard
• 220 Ohm Resistor (LED)
• 10K Resistor (pushbutton)
• LED
• Conductive Thread
• Portable Battery

Tools

• Multimeter
• Arduino IDE

Your challenge in this lab is to make your first Arduino project and try to implement it on a piece of textile. The requirements are:

• It has to have a soft-circuit social input, such as a fabric pushbutton or fabric force-sensitive-resistor, that can be activated by another person.
• It has to provide some sort of output such as an LED or a 5V buzzer
• It has to be powered by battery.
• You have to write the code yourself. You can base it off of the example provided in circuits.io from last class.

Many of you will not finish this project during class time. You will have to finish it on your own time. Schedule office hours with the instructor or with the fellows for extra help. Document your entire process. You each have to submit individual documentation.

Examples from previous semesters:

• Joseph and Flora’s Light-up Handbag
• Casey and Maya’s Touchable Heart
• Cindy and Jiayi’s Light-up Pocket

Create a project made from fabric that tells a story through the sense of sight. Document on the Documentation Blog.

Some examples of previous projects:

• The Binary Poem by Krishan
• Panda Ontogeny shirts by Hoiyan
• Felt Christmas Tree by Elli
• Visibility Cloak by Konrad