Below is the final documentation of my finished project. Even though I would have liked to have a finished product that was controlled by an accelerometer and had more noticeable changes in brightness, I am satisfied with the amount I learned. This project allowed me to refresh my knowledge of circuits and coding and to…
Author: Taylor
Polish, Fail, and Present
This week I worked on soldering my working circuit to my solder PCB board. As shown in the video below, while on the breadboard I was able to alter the brightness of the dress by moving my hand and accelerometer in the bottom left corner in the video. However, when I went to solder the…
Everything Working
After frying my EL inverter last week, I ordered more and focused on sewing the EL wire to my dress in the meantime. Once my new strand came, I had two strands and chose to sew them both to the dress as shown below. I will try to use both in the final product but…
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration
I first decided to tackle writing code to smooth the acceleration data and add a threshold value that triggers the EL wire to be powered. I was able to use a moving average filter to complete this task. It went very quickly so I was able to work on another difficult aspect of my project….
Maquette
Maquette For my maquette, I decided to work on getting an accelerometer working. I ordered one and soldered headers to it so I could test it on a bread board. I created the circuit shown below which connects it to an Arduino Uno. I then uploaded the code shown below and was able to obtain…
Concept Proposal
My project idea is to create a light up dress or dance costume with different sections that become brighter as that part of the body/the dress moves faster. I am interested in this project because it would be an interesting way to emphasize movement in different locations and could be used to enhance dance performances….
Light Artist Presentation – CuteCircuit
About CuteCircuit CuteCircuit designs clothing that utilizes innovative circuit technology to enhance the sensory and emotional experience of fashion. It was founded by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz in 2004. Celebrities such as Katy Perry, Fergie and U2 have worn pieces by CuteCircuit at events like the Met Gala and performances. CuteCircuit has also collaborated with prominent…
Introduction and Art Portfolio
My name is Taylor Frederick (she/her) and I am from Santa Barbara, CA. I am studying art as my humanities depth topic currently, so art is involved in my goal of graduating. I have really enjoyed doing art as my depth because it allows me to have a creative project I can work on and…