Week 10 – Soft Switches & Solar

11/09

• Reading Discussion: Jarrod Knibbe, et. al, “Skill-Sleeves: Designing Electrode Garments for Wearability.”
• Presentations: Assignment 04: Soft Interface 
• Solar Lab:
  • Using a multimeter 
  • Calculating power for your project
  • Solar Basics 
  • Some hook-up options 

Assignments for next week

• • Project 02 Critical Wearable (final project): Post sketch, bill of materials and concept to Discord. #Project02; Comment on at least one other person’s Project 02 post.  << your sketch should be detailed! what materials are you using? how are you connecting them? where are they doing on body?  identify all known components, and note things that still need be tested, compared, or decided on.
  • Assign 05: Design a wearable for a non-human  <canceled, to devote more time to final project, but please look through these slides, particularly from slide 56 on.
  • Bring batteries for battery pack (wearables kit) and battery powered junk, (ie, small toys, fans, old tech like CD player)  for next week’s lab.