The last couple of weeks I’ve been continuously working on the wiring of the displays. The first challenge was to prevent the naked wires touching the conductive fabric underneath. In the morning I had another brain wave: I should isolate the wires instead of the fabric. After talking to the salesman in my favourite electronics […]
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Breakthrough
I’ve been doing a lot of testing with heating my thermochromic ink with resistive wire. And I’ve had some great results, to my relief. First I had an almost two hour call with Marius, another electronics genius who helped me with the hardware on one of my other projects: www.collectingsilence.org. He pointed me in the […]
Display hell
I’ve been working my ass of this weekend to get the displays working for the video shoot. I had to moderate my goals where the coding is concerned. I couldn’t get it to work the advanced way for three displays. So I chose just to light up an equal number of rings for every display, […]
Closure
I’m working towards the closure of the demo version. The tailor had finished last week and most of the wiring was done. With all the custom print boards the vest has turned out rather stiff and armour like. Not very comfortable… The boards are a little bigger than expected and the flat cables that connect […]
Death by deadline?
I’m on the train to Den Bosch to meet my tailor and finish the fabric side of the vest. At least, I hope so because the deadline is fixed. This weekend, weather permitting, I’ll be shooting the video. The demo version of the vest must be working then. The last couple of weeks I’ve been […]