Group members: Yinni Hou, Junliang He, Zihang Ye. After weeks of work, finally, our LED jakect works. However, we still have problem about choosing the power of arduino redboard. First, we decide to use lithium battery as the power of the redboard. After we tried, we find out that lithium battery is not the best…
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Blog 7 Materials
Group members: Yinni Hou, Junliang He, Zihang Ye. Since the wires are exposed inside the jacket, we are going to sew a cloth on the wires. So the wires can be covered and the users will feel much comfortable when they put on the LED jacket. The exposed wires We were planned to use pieces…
Blog 6 Testing and evaluation
Group members: Yinni Hou, Junliang He, Zihang Ye. We did the peer testing evaluation during the class lask week. Through sending questionnaires to our classmates, we collected some useful feedbacks about our design. Majority of our classmates thought that the jacket was interesting and attrative. Such design can bring much fun to skater. However, lots…
Week 12 The final prototype! & Final code!
Team Group Not Found–Junliang He –juhe0344 I have to say, after a lot of twists and turns, our prototype was finally done in the last week, though I simplified its functionality, and unfortunately failed to make it a truly intelligent garment design. But the brilliant effects of LEDs make up for that in part. The…
Week 11 Soldering 2.0 & Code 3.0
Team Group Not Found–Junliang He– juhe0344 At the first three days of this week, we tried our best to finish all soldering, and we improve our protection, firstly, after soldering, We wound the three wires together and made a simple weave, which had two advantages, one at the final sewing stage, which reduced the possibility…
Week 10 Coding 1.0 & 2.0 /Prototype 1.0
Team Group Not Found– Junliang He– juhe0344 This week, we still worked on soldering and try to set all LED strips which already re-connected on this clothes. Then we realized there are lots of problems exist, the first one is after we soldering all LED strips, we…
Week 9 Material choose & Soldering 1.0
Group Not Found (Team 7)—Junliang He — juhe0344 . Clothes 1: Black Jacket …
#Blog 5 – Design procedure
Group members: Yinni Hou, Junliang He, Zihang Ye. We decide to choose the shelter as our clothing pick up location since the shelter is safer for picking up and getting back the cloth and we will not disturb other skateboarders in the skate park. Our design are focus on adult skateboarders and users are supposed…
#Blog 4 – In-progress update
Group members: Yinni Hou, Junliang He, Zihang Ye. Initially, we planned to install the LED strip on the skateboard. However, we considered the factor that skaters play tricks with their skateboard, it can be very dangerous with the LED strip on the skateboard. Also, the LED strip can be easily damaged. Therefore, we will design…
# Blog 3 – Design concept
Group members: Yinni Hou, Junliang He, Zihang Ye. On Saturday’s class, we did the Movement sensitivity workshop. The Bodystorming with chairs was really fun, diverse postures can be created when working in pairs. Collaboration is very important to produce desire design result. The activity of ‘Dividing up spaces’ stimulated our imagination, we also gain inspiration for…
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