Temperature Sensing Hat

by imoyer@mit.edu

by Judy Zheng Jia and Ilan Moyer

Our concept is a hat which measures the wearer’s body temperature using a sensor held against their forehead and then displays the measurement with a color-changing antenna.

In Action

Construction

The brain behind the hat is a small microcontroller, the Atmel ATtiny85, mounted to a fabric PCB designed by Prof. Buechley and made by us in lab.

Temperature measurements are currently made by an integrated thermometer-on-a-chip (MCP9700A) which has been sewn in the forehead of the hat.

A tri-color LED is used as the output device and is mounted on an antenna made of clear plastic fiber.

Current Schematic

Future Schematic