Module 1 Formstorming

Weekly Activity Template

Grey Gwozdz

Project 1

Module 1

Connect: circuits and interaction

Activity 1

battery pouch try one- I used conductive thread which made it not work. battery pouch try 2- it worked until I finished sowing it closed and then stopped working. at this point I gave up and tried something new single circuit. The thread is to hold stuff down. A paralell circuit. The series circut, I made it too small at first. I added an extension to the copper tape to make it reach both batteries. The connection was really poor so when the lights were on they were barely on. The paper that I did my first three circuts on. The inital single circut got turned into the paralell circuit and I reused the lights and batteries. I tried using conductive fabric for the third try at a battery pouch. The third attempt at a battery pouch all sown up. Proof that the third battery pouch was working. I sowed on the conductive thread to one of the peices of conductive fabric. At this point it stopped working completely and I put it down for the day. after the previous attempt had given out on me I pulled out the makey makey kit so I could used the wires to get a solid connection and make sure each component was working and figure out where the problem was. Im making sure its not an issue with weak connection on the conductive thread here and realized that it was invisible on the carpet so I moved everything onto a yellow towel so that I'd stop loosing things. I was pretty sure that the battery pack was the issue so I ripped it out and just taped down the batttery and conductive thread. I used a wire to finish the circut so I could get a good idea of if it was working well before I moved forward finishing up the conductivity tester by just sowing down on top of the tape to keep the battery in place and not messing with it any further. The light was finicky because the needle was too thick to actually go through the holes in the light so i had to sow around it to pin it in place. I was going to use yellow thread to hold it down more securely but that ended up just interfering with the connection so I removed it. This is showing the conductivity tester working using conductive thread, conductive fabric, a battery, light, and sowing needle. I managed to shock myself so many times making this my hands were really tingling after. Testing the conductivity on the back of an enamel pin, It works for the ones that are clearly metal and dont have a coating or paint over them. Testing the conductivity on the front of a pin, its not conductive. possibly could use the backing post somehow for the non wearable circuit? conductivity of a freshly watered plant: conductive but only barely, there was a tiny dim red light. I tried to zoom in but it may have been lost with image compression. It was ever so sligjtly lit up though. I thought the sunglasses would be conductive because they look like metal but whatever plating or coating it has means it wasnt conductive. water was also not conductive on it's own and made the whole thing more finnicky Big shock. The tinfoil was conductive. Even with taping down the copper tape the lights would only light up when I pressed down hard, blue especially. The connections are too weak to work properly but the idea was that as the dragon moves across the lights light up at a certian point when the paper stops blocking the battery connection. the wiring and stuff for the dragon. The tinfoil seemed to have better conductivity than the copper tape but it still was not great. I taped down all the connections which helped things not move but I still had to press down on each light to get them to connect and light up.

Activity 2

this was a list of my inital interaction ideation this was just loose ideation sketches for wearables as i was having more trouble with that my first picture for an interaction is drinking from an opaque can a sketch of how that could be benefitted from technical interactions,the light turn on indicating the water level my second interaction photo is chopping a pepper a sketch of how that might be improved using electronics. the knife closes a circuit telling you when you're done cutting for beginner chefs a picture of wearingf a scarf as a wearable interaction a scarf to light up, because its cute and pretty piano gloves that light up when you press a key, would look cool with a long exposure playing piano in the dark, but i dont have acess to that stuff interaction of putting on a vest a reflective vest that lights up when being worn to improve visibility a jacket with a light up face on the back to look cool and give the effect of 'watching' behind you a hat that is pretending to be a tiara interaction a tiara with gems that light up for every little girl's deam a hood that lights up to act as a reading hood TV head sketch, its a crt tv that has been gutted and has lights on the inside to make a face a light up mask that covers the face and transitions from the mechanical world to the technical world. more elaboration, the switches will be on the ears, the mechanical side will use wires and the nature side will use fabric and thread a key card unlocking a door as an interaction a key card that lights up when scanned, for fun and sillies a key that turns on a light when the door is unlocked, seems like it could be a security concern a wind up robot who's eyes light up when the key is turned, using a character i have already made continuing on how i might make the circuits for this robot. I made a model in a mobile software called nomad and exported it to cinema 4d to cut in half and hollow out, i know the mesh is super dense, im probably gonna re do it the robot cut in half and starting to get hollowed out. I was encountering a lot of issues because of the mesh density and because the model was imported. I am planning to remodel him completely at this point because I think it will be quicker.

Project 1

Final Project 1 Design

Wearable Interactive Affordance Based Circuit

Ages of the World Mask. A mask that transitions from flowers and natural elements into tech and electrical elements reflecting the tech revolution our world has been going through.

me wearing my mask, it has circuitboards and a button on the left with a red light and flowers on the right with a green light. both lights are lit, a Video of me wearing the mask.

Non-Wearable Interactive Affordance Based Circuit

A wind up robot who's eyes light up when the key is inserted, inspired in part by wind up toys and old videogames. His name is Endurance.

A four image square of the robot facing the front and side, the two on the left have the lights off and the two on the right have the lights on
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