Combine your outside superpowers (skills and interests that you haven’t utilized in this class yet) with the learning from this weekend to produce a unique haptic feedback prototype for an intended application. You can draw on your coding abilities, hardware prowess, fabrication mastery, etc. In your documentation, be sure to indicate what your intended application is as well as what was the focus of your prototyping activities. Capture the experience of the haptic feedback a

Group: Anita Mbabazi, Arnav Wagh, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: Your task is to work as a group to test and/or develop a particular type of haptic feedback and to provide your findings in a physical form to be experienced by the class. This can be a deeper dive into the work we’ve done already with vibrating motors or branching out into alternative approaches to haptic feedback. Wavy Feather Necklace The Fabrication Process: The Final Result and Users' Experiences

Group: Yiyao Nie, Alexandra Lopez Assignments: -Sewing a circuit to light up an LED - For this workshop, your task is to test (4) sensing materials in two different ways and then construct a complete sensor. - Test different materials. Using the multi-meter we tested the Velostat, the conductive fabric sensor, the stretch conductive fabric, and the conductive fiber. by pressing, stretching, and bending all these materials we collected a range of values. In the second part, w

Group: Yiyao Nie, Arnav Wagh, Haiyi Huang, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: Your final assignment in this course is to make a beautiful sensor. It can be beautiful in its construction or physical implementation, in its use of materials, or in the resulting interaction. This sensor should be fully functional. One more Dance! For the final assignment, we want to improve the Musical Shoes that we made in class by polishing the physical look of the shoes, fixing the sensors, and makin

Group: Anita Mbabazi, Dan Owen, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: In this experiment, we branch out into using multiple vibration motors. The purpose of this is to generate sensations that travel across the area of the body or simultaneously stimulate multiple locations on the skin. To connect and control multiple motors you use (3) digital or analog output pins on the Arduino.

Group: Anita Mbabazi, Dan Owen, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: This experiment introduces a new part – the haptic motor driver. This board and the associated library provide over 100 effects for the vibrating motor allowing for more sophisticated behavior with less programming. Download the Arduino library and try the “Basic” example. 1- Open the Serial Monitor so that you can read the numbers of the effects as you feel them. Write down the numbers of the ones that interest you

Group: Yiyao Nie, Arnav Wagh, Haiyi Huang, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: Work as a group to test and/or develop a particular type of sensor. This should be a very narrow focus on one material. Musical Shoes For our research group project, we made a pair of interactive musical shoes using conductive fabric, conductive thread and conductive paint, Velostat and felt fabric, and foam. We use conductive thread in the bobbin of the sewing machine which worked perfectly. This conducti

Group: Yiyao Nie, Arnav Wagh, Haiyi Huang, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: Using the materials and techniques from the previous workshop, work with your group to develop (3 – 5) sensors to share with the group. For material sprint exercise, our group tested conductive fiber, Eeonyx stretch sensing fabric, and Eeonyx StaTex conductive fiber. 1- Conductive Fiber We tried out the conductive fiber, and they are very thin and hair-like. Because of that, we thought of clipping it to ou

Group: Anita Mbabazi, Dan Owen, Alexandra Lopez Assignment: The purpose of this experiment is to explore the possibilities of a single vibration motor controlled by an Arduino. 1- Upload the “Blink” example to your Arduino. Using alligator clips and wires, connect the vibrating motor to the appropriate Arduino output pin, as you would an LED except without the resistor. For our purposes, it does not matter which lead of the motor is attached to the output pin or which is con

The Inspiration I was initially challenged by the idea of producing precise inflatable shapes with Mylar for my soft robots class, I did some iterations with the laser cut that worked great but I have to do all the sealing by hand with an ironing tip that is normally used for arts and crafts projects. In my research I came across two interesting projects, the first book was about creating artwork pieces with cut pieces of fabric using a soldering tip, all the process is done