{"id":716,"date":"2019-04-01T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?p=716"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:44:29","slug":"nathan-dennler-maquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/nsdennler\/nathan-dennler-maquette\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Dennler: Maquette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A note from future Nathan, cursing my past self: I totally forgot to take pictures during the process, so it’s hard to see it coming together, I will remember to do that next time!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I worked on the mesh turtleneck and the start of the dress. There were a couple of things that came up during this phase. At the fabric store, they didn’t really have any mesh in the color that I was hoping for. There were dark blue meshes and light colored meshes but none that were that sort of cornflower blue. I ended up just getting a light color and a dark color, and layering them together. This made it difficult to sew since there were four layers of slippery material, but in the end, I am pretty happy with the way it looks since the layers can shift over each other and give it a fluid feeling look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When it came to sizing, after I made the mock-up of the turtleneck, I noticed that it was pretty big on me, so I made this one slightly smaller. The only thing I overlooked was that the mesh I used for this was not stretchy, so I was not able to fit my head through the hole. To fix this I put a zipper in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moving on to the dress, this took me much longer than I expected. There were a lot of pieces to cut out and I learned a lot about “gathering” materials. I also discovered how much work goes into the bodice of the dress as opposed to the skirt: The bodice took about 12 hours and the skirt took only 3ish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once I got this to a semi-transportable state, I started working on the shirt’s lighting. I was trying to find a way to mate the LEDs with the fiber optic cables in a way that they would be resilient to some movement since this will be worn. I 3D printed some pieces to do this, but I think that heat shrink tubing will be better in terms of flexibility, and I also think I will be able to fit more cables per LED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These connectors work well enough, but I could only fit four cables into them, I think it is from the inaccuracies in the printer, which are kind of rough since the cables are 0.75mm in diameter, so accuracy really counts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the actual attaching of the cables to the shirt, I originally planned on sewing in the fiber optic cable with invisible thread. After trying to do this for a while, I realized that there were a couple of problems with this idea: It takes super<\/em> long, the cables have a tendency to bend (since it was stored in a circular shape), it causes the inner layer of the shirt to move in strange ways, and most obnoxiously–it looks ugly (I wanted a more orderly pattern and trying to sew the things in resulted in a rat’s nest of cables). In order to fix this, I was planning on using an idea from Arianna’s post a while back about using mesh with large holes to thread the fabric through (if I need something heavier, I was also considering using a screen, though that definitely<\/em> won’t be a comfortable solution). This should solve most of the problems I was having, since it will be like sewing in cables with many many points in much much less time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the materials, I did get all of the LEDs, controllers, and fabric. I didn’t end up getting a chance to try out the controllers, but I think there are quite a few examples, so I hope that it won’t be too difficult to work with (fingers crossed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A picture of the controller. Look how small!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Looking ahead, specifically to the headpiece I wanted to make, I got some Styrofoam “project bricks” from my house, which I can embed some skewers in to form the flower stems. I think that My plan is to attach two plastic bowls together and cut a hole for my head in them. I did this once for an astronaut costume I made for Halloween in high school, and I think it worked fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my updated list is:
– Two plastic bowls from Walmart
– Some mesh \/ screen with thick holes (I think I could also get this at the Super Walmart down the road)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan for this week is to finish up the sewing and use some of the NeoPixels and the the controllers to get a handle on the interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A note from future Nathan, cursing my past self: I totally forgot to take pictures during the process, so it’s hard to see it coming together, I will remember to do that next time! This week I worked on the mesh turtleneck and the start of the dress. There were a couple of things that… <\/p>\n

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