{"id":1273,"date":"2016-03-30T22:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raggedclown.net\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2017-04-16T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T13:41:27","slug":"heartbeat-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raggedclown.net\/blog\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Heartbeat necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"necklaceFor a long while now I have been keen on doing a wearable project. The intersection of art and the body has always interested me and since wearables are an increasingly popular categories companies like Adafruit <\/a>have been making amazing strides in making these projects in a non industrial, experimental way. The problem is A: I do not have any fashion sense and more importantly B: I can not make Clothes. Enter Sandra Kaas<\/a>, an old friend of mine and artistic allrounder: theatre, video, performace and most importantly fashion!<\/p>\n

\"mockup\"<\/p>\n

I started drawing up some plans, the brief was it needed to be managable and interactive in a way that would be easily understood. My first idea was to make a compass collar. I thought a fabric collar could be produced in a short time and it could be covered in lights all around with one color pointing north always and turning as you turned.<\/p>\n

I wanted to use the flora<\/a>, an \"alligatorArduino <\/a>variant, as it seemed a great fit something wearable as well as these amazing rgb leds<\/a> with their own drivers (which would make assembly easier), looking around the site I found this Accelerometer\/Compass Sensor<\/a> and I thought this could create an interesting interaction, I liked the idea of colour pattern that rotated itself north. Before going and meeting Sandra to put the things together I did some prototyping.<\/p>\n

\"carboardThe module worked as expected but it was quite hard to test facing and colour effect (I was cycling through an RGB colour pattern depending on which direction I was facing with the RGB led on the flora chip itself), so I set out to make my beautiful cardboard collar prototype. I taped the chip to it.
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\nThis still was quite unwieldy although I got some useful results from it finding<\/p>\n

\"test<\/p>\n

out approximate facing direction and how to translate a 3d vector for magnetic north in to a 2d one. I decided to try out the stainless steel thread<\/a> which I was going to sew the sensor the flora and the lights together.<\/p>\n