Sensor
Luna and I created two sensors, one with a buzzer and one with an LED light. The 10k ohm resistor is connected with the sensor in series to protect it from short circuit, as the resistance of the sensor may reach 0 ohm when its left end is pressed. While the input directly gets data from the sensor and it doesn’t need to go through the 10k ohm resistor. The buzzer is in parallel with the sensor, getting the output from Arduino Lilypad.
The LED light follows the same steps. However, we made a mistake here and believed that the 10k ohm resistor was not needed in this circuit since we added a 220-ohm resistor. Later we realized that the 220-ohm resistor was just the protect the light, and the 10k ohm resistor should still be there to protect the sensor. I documented this part and pointed out our mistake in the picture.
-Buzzer
-LED
A Breathtaking Embrace
When a person opens their arms and try to embrace a relationship or an environment, parts of themselves have to be hidden or even changed, in an attempt fulfill the imagination and expectations from the counterpart.
The wearable device is made of rubber bands, screws, and paper clips (used to hold the rubber bands in place). When the wearer raises their arms, the rubber band around their waist and breasts tightened, and the wearer would feel the difficulty to breathe smoothly. The screws along the band embed deeper into the body, in a way representing that the norms and expectations long received by the wearer now in turn hurt them.
The wearable is prone to feminine, while in our sketch, more possibilities were discussed. For instance, there could also be a band wrapped around one’s feet, and when raising arms, the wearer feels pain in their feet and wish to tiptoe to ease the pain, showing the preference for a taller height in society.
