New Textiles 2010

Networked Wearable Assignment

Due: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7pm

For this assignment you will work in teams, in collaboration with the Communicating with Mobile Technology class, to build a textile that talks to a mobile phone. Teams for this assignment are listed below. With your team you should create a page on this site that documents your project and add your project link to this page. Your page should include pictures and a discussion of your experience. Also create a short video of your project in action. Post the video online (vimeo, youtube, your own site) and include a link to your video in your documentation page.

The Mobile Technology class meets on Tuesdays from 7-10pm, so projects should be completed by 7pm on Tuesday, April 6th. Demonstrations to the Mobile Technology class will happen on April 6th from 7-10pm. Please join if you can! Bring your project to class on April 7 for demonstrations to the New Textiles class.

Teams

Team 1: Phone-finding Pocket Pouch Amy (a_lemess@mit.edu), Elly (ejessop@mit.edu), Nadia (ncheng@mit.edu)
Brian Mickle (bmickle@mit.edu), Erik Verlage (everlage@mit.edu)

Team 2: Wrist-based Way-Finding: Dawn (dawn@mit.edu), Brad (bcrane@gsd.harvard.edu), Rizal (rizal@mit.edu)
Alejandro Ruiz (aleruiz@mit.edu), Thomas Lipoma (tlipoma@mit.edu)

Team 3 Networked Wearable: Sarah B. (swbates@mit.edu), Xiao Xiao (xiaosquared@gmail.com), Sarah W. (witt@mit.edu)
Stephan Boyer (boyers@mit.edu), Kim Gonzales (ksg@mit.edu), Meghan Kane (mkane@mit.edu)

Team 4: Far Away so Close: the hammock! : Edwina (edwina@media.mit.edu), Ellan (efs8@mit.edu)
Michaela Lavan (mlavan@mit.edu), Elliot Uvero (eauvero@mit.edu)

Team 5: Turning World Pillow : Madeleine (mcelish@mit.edu), James (james.leng@gmail.com)
Eli Williams (eliw@mit.edu), Jake Dweck (jdweck@mit.edu)

Team 6 Hello USA Neworked Wearable :Felecia (fad@mit.edu), Yang Yang (yang2@mit.edu)
Jeff Chen (jchen123@mit.edu), Charles Mills (ccmills@mit.edu)

Assignment Resources

Arduino

Amarino: a tool that connects Arduino and Android

Make a textile Arduino

here's a diagram that shows how the ATMega168 pins are mapped to Arduino pins:



circuit drawing: Attach:textileArduino.ai
code for ATmega168 microcontroller: Attach:arduinoBootloader.zip

Supplies:
ATmega168
switch
header
.1uF capacitor
jumper wire for TX (yellow in drawing)
LED
1K ohm resistor