I’ve worked together with Mickel on the design of the actual vest. Mickel makes extravagant suits and has a feel for the effect of textile techniques. First we talked through the whole vest and the atmosphere that it should breath. I took all my requisites and net fabric that I ordered online from a firm […]
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Ups and downs
I’m having a hard time with my wearable. There are different areas where I’m experiencing problems: – The thermochromic ink deteriorates very fast. Under influence of UV radiation for which I haven’t been able to find a solution. The amount of electricity it needs to heat up is very much depending on the air temperature. […]
Things are moving
I wasn’t feeling well but as I had so much to discuss I just had to go to last Saturdays’ workshop. A tailor was coming and Paul would also be there to help me build my shopping list so I could move on. My head was exploding with all the things that I was still […]
Interface design
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Building & talking
It was four weeks since the last workshop. Despite of the time span I didn’t have a lot of time to spend on the project but I was content with the research I’d done and was keen to show my findings to Anna Maria Cornelia. I also hoped to get at least one gas sensor […]
Design experiments
After the last workshop I went straight to the shop and bought some ‘equipment’ to experiment with. I especially like the tiny single punch and propelling pencil. I wanted to try different ways of working with paper in a portable way. Here’s a description of the things I tried. I guessed the air quality from […]
The pleasures of designing
Yesterday I went to the second meeting. It got me so excited I even dreamt about it. As we all had to rethink and deepen our ideas about the concept we did a round of our current status. There were a lot of suggestions for everybody from everybody, so that was a nice exchange. We’ll […]