This week I’ve worked on the interface of my air quality vest. I must say I couldn’t decide on how to solve the design of the button and the actual display. The ‘button’ is my way to interact with the sensors. By indicating if it smells good or bad. The system will measure and send […]
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Visit to HaVeP
This morning I visited the HaVeP firm in Goirle, the Netherlands. HaVeP is a very old company specialised in work wear. I had e-mailed them earlier about this project and asked if I could visit them. I wanted to see different materials and find out where I could buy the materials they used in their […]
Hardware integration
On the photograph you can see the 5 volt circuit. It houses two sensors and two buttons. At the workshop last Saturday I put together button circuit, if you press the white one it means it smells good, the brown one indicates it smells bad. This is of course just a functional setup, purely for […]
Is it Art?
Last Tuesday evening we had a meeting about our concept and design with AnnaMariaCornelia. While we ate our pizzas and drank our (free) wine we discussed the current state of wearable design. AnnaMariaCornelia was very firm in her conviction that my project isn’t art. I was a little shocked at first because working on this […]
Screen printing
This Monday I worked with Peter, a screen printing expert on my reflective strips. We tested two different inks: the Matsui and the ChromaZone. I bought the Matsui ink in a very nice turquoise blue to be activated at 27 degrees and a black with an activation temperature of 25 degrees. The Dutch firm Blanken […]
Things look bright
A lot of material happened to arrive by post today. Very fast were the retroreflective strips samples send to me by Tusk international. Test I’d done earlier on this type of material was disappointing. But the tests with thermochromic ink on the stripes looked really good. I’m very pleased with the heating of the conductive […]
Eco maps
Last week I went to PICNIC, a cross-discipline platform for creative conversation and collaboration. They offered a workshop and seminar on visualizing eco data, Ecomap Lab. The seminar was inspiring. All speakers were interested in citizen participation, which isn’t really my starting point but maybe my finish. I always start from what effects me personally […]
Productive
My aim for this workshop (19-9-09) was to put the three sensors together but we also had a have a meeting with AnnaMariaCornelia concerning the design. The rest was kind enough to let me meet first. I showed the various designs I did with the safety vest as basis. The vest was present from the start […]
A technical meeting
There was a small group at the meeting last week. Which was nice in the sense that we could all claim Paul (the engineer) for a longer time. Today we all inventoried our current status and needs with regard to the technical part of our projects. Thermochromic ink First I did tests with the thermochromic […]
No-tech prototypes
After trying some work with a LED matrix I decided that is was time to look for a simple way to experiment with the visualisation of the data. There are three routes to take: the stain, the line or the flock route. I’m looking for ways of translating the parameters: colour, length, applied pressure and […]