For the midterm project, I would like to create watch bands for Apple watch. When I first heard the criteria for the midterm assignment that we had to create a wearable, I was a bit stuck at first. I started looking at some wearables that I wear daily and wearing a watch is one of them. I have a couple of watches and one that I really like is my Apple watch. I like Apple watch because it is very versatile and useful for fitness and one of their cool aspect is their interchangeable watch bands. I started looking up online for DIY videos of apple watch bands and what kinds of materials to make it out of. I saw a video that used old boxer elastic bands that goes around the waist and I wanted to try it but since this project needed to include plastic, I couldn’t. Then in class, we started ironing plastic bags together and through this process, I realized that using 3-4 plastics bags ironed together could be a good choice. They are hard and stable while bendable at the same time. Therefore, I used my own Apple watch as a size guidance and cut around the plastic bags. However, another issue occurred, I won’t be able to attach the Apple watch bands without the connectors and I could only buy them online. As the guideline of this midterm project, I cannot purchase any material to make my project therefore I wouldn’t be able to do this anymore.
As I would looking through other projects made out of plastic, I thought about making a raincoat with plastic and go forth with that idea.
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