Background/Concept Development A problem can be catalyst for a solution. If a creative solution has broad use, it might be a good starting point for a project. I’ve always have a penchant for fashion; wearable…
Category: P-Comp
Pcomp: final project presentation
Last week’s class was a productive user studies class. When I decided to make a pair of heated gloves, I thought this is something practical and manageable…. like many things in life, it doesn’t always…
Pcomp User Studies Questions & Progress
User Studies Questions: 1) Who is the ideal user? 2) Feeling of device: – Gender-wise, do you think this kind of wearable is more proper for one gender to the other? Why? – Compared to…
Pcomp WK9 Progress&System Diagram
This week I spent time looking for the code examples to play with temperature sensors. One of them is with TMP102: #include <Wire.h> int tmp102Address = 0x48; void setup(){ Serial.begin(9600); Wire.begin(); } void loop(){ float…
Pcomp Wk8 Playtest
Description: A pair of heated gloves with LED lighting. This gloves can be turn on/off and with a switch and temperature can can be control/detected through a digital sensor. Rechargeable. LED lighting as ornament and…
Pcomp Wk7 Computational Fashion– Wearables
It was an insightful class last week. After careful consideration– given the time constrain, skills, practicability, and because the winter is coming, I decided to work on — a heated gloves. Inspiration I…
Pcomp Wk6 Final project brainstorming
Learning lessons from midterm project, I decided to do something different for final project. I came here after learning ITP is a pcom-focused community. Even though knowing Wearables is still somewhat a prematured industry, I…
Pcomp Wk5 Midterm Photocell application
The concept behind my midterm project came from a one of my sketches I worked on in ICM: a bowling ball going down the alley and hitting a pin at the end. We attempted to…
Pcomp WK4 Creatively expand on servo lab
We explored many things new and fun last week– tone output and servo motor control. It was amazing how detail you can control the movement of the motor so detailed. I was fascinated by the…
WK3 Interactive Technology in Public– “Name Me” at Build-A-Bear
The joy of being a kid nowadays — there is whole billion-dollar industry devoted to making them happy and smile. When I arrived at the flagship on 5th avenue/ 46th street, they told me it…