Category: Gloat

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Final Project Post: GLOAT

GLOAT

Team: Obasi, Jack

Project Description: Transparent bubble coat with colorful lights embedded in the lining that reacts to sound

Video:

The video is a live demonstration of Obasi wearing it to perform during the fashion show. The vest lights up according to the music in the background.

Final Poster:

Describe what your project does and how it works

Gloat is a light up vest that is made out of transparent material and neopixel light strips. When there is no music in the background, the vest glows in a rainbow pattern. When there is loud music in the background, the vest glows accordingly to the music.

Describe your overall feelings on your project

We are very happy that we got the vest to work and are surprised to find out that it looks even better than we imagined. The only frustrating part for me is soldering the light strips with wires. Due to the movement of the vest, the connection sometimes gets very unstable, but we were eventually able to fix it by using hot glue to secure the solder.

Describe how well did your project meet your original project description and goals

This project meets the exact original project description since it lights according to music. We designed the vest intended for live concerts setting, and it worked perfectly during Obasi’s live performance. We did not have the original goal of it having a rainbow animation when there is no music, but it is an extra feature that we added later

Describe the largest hurdles you encountered.  How did you overcome these challenges

The largest difficult was soldering the wires. The vest consists of two major wires throughout the entire body. Interestingly, one of the wires never gets loose while the other one constantly gets unstable. We have to solder the wires over and over to make sure the connection is stable. Eventually, we stablize it with hot glue and connection becomes stable.

Describe what would you do next if you had more time

If we have more time next time, we might put on more wires and program more light variations so that it could have a customized light for each loudness, which could lead to more diversity in colors. We also might have it react to other inputs such as jumping motion.

Final Material used

Clear Marine Vinyl

Polyfill

Black ribbing

Black zipper

Silver Reflective Tape

NeoPixel Light Strip

Circuit Playground Express

External Battery

Wires

 

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Project Pots 5: Lighting Jacket

Project Title: Light Up Jacket (“You are hot but you are cool”)

Project Team: Obasi, Jack

Weekly Accomplishment:

Obasi:

Worked on the sample jacket.

Search for materials and fabrics.

Design pattern for the jacket.

Jack:

Searched for ways to light.

Wrote basic code for Playground Express.

Purchased lights for the jacket. 

Found a way to light up the wires and circles. 

Combine lighting effect with Obasi’s material and produce cool effects.

Have NeoPixels light up in different ways

Images

Code function: if the more pixels light up when the sound is louder (only if the sound is above threshold)

Changes to our approach

  1. We will try to make a light jacket (perhaps with less stuffing), so people can wear it indoor
  2. We will try to make it with transparent fabric so that the lights can have a glowing effect
  3. For now, instead of detecting the bass, we will detect loud sound since bass can be very tricky to detect
  4. We will add a “bounce” feature so that when the performer jump on stage the color changes as well
  5. We decide to make a vest instead of a jacket since a vest can be worn indoor and look cool at the same time.
  6. We decided to use the RGB NeoPixel as our primary way of lighting. We also design a pattern of where our lights would go

Material List

El Wire:

Blue, Green, Orange & Yellow colorways

$1.35 Each

6 wires in total

https://www.ellumiglow.com/electroluminescence/electroluminescent-wire

Neon Pixel Strip

LED light

$12.5 Each

0.5m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3811?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZdN0k6gopEcaCGBKvVWR_YBFFRyOOqmAiFx3_1TthxETDxXecGo_ZhoCfAwQAvD_BwE

Mini Skinny Neon Pixel Strip

mini LED light

$24.95 Each

1m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2964?length=1

Lighting Tape Strip

Tape Strip

$8.95 Each

2 – 3?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/415?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZQ3VhhcbDMvufS2GybwBge1zBLfJYWrOkZuZkYsYJYpU8I2vnJNpxRoCb5oQAvD_BwE

Lithium Ion Polymer Battery

Battery

$10 Each

2

https://www.adafruit.com/product/258

Areas of concern

We are trying to figure out how to light up the entire jacket and control the patterns with one playground express

 

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Project Post 4: Light up Jacket

Project Title: Light Up Jacket (“You are hot but you are cool”)

Project Team: Obasi, Jack

Weekly Accomplishment:

Obasi:

Worked on the sample jacket.

Search for materials and fabrics.

Design pattern for the jacket.

Jack:

Searched for ways to light.

Wrote basic code for Playground Express.

Purchased lights for the jacket. 

Worked on ways to detect jumping motion through code.

Found a way to light up the wires and circles. 

Images

Code function: if the more pixels light up when the sound is louder (only if the sound is above threshold)

Changes to our approach

  1. We will try to make a light jacket (perhaps with less stuffing), so people can wear it indoor
  2. We will try to make it with transparent fabric so that the lights can have a glowing effect
  3. For now, instead of detecting the bass, we will detect loud sound since bass can be very tricky to detect
  4. We will add a “bounce” feature so that when the performer jump on stage the color changes as well
  5. We decide to make a vest instead of a jacket since a vest can be worn indoor and look cool at the same time.
  6. We bought different wires to test one which one works the best

Material List (Bought few wires to test them out)

El Wire:

Blue, Green, Orange & Yellow colorways

$1.35 Each

6 wires in total

https://www.ellumiglow.com/electroluminescence/electroluminescent-wire

Neon Pixel Strip

LED light

$12.5 Each

0.5m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3811?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZdN0k6gopEcaCGBKvVWR_YBFFRyOOqmAiFx3_1TthxETDxXecGo_ZhoCfAwQAvD_BwE

Mini Skinny Neon Pixel Strip

mini LED light

$24.95 Each

1m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2964?length=1

Lighting Tape Strip

Tape Strip

$8.95 Each

2 – 3?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/415?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZQ3VhhcbDMvufS2GybwBge1zBLfJYWrOkZuZkYsYJYpU8I2vnJNpxRoCb5oQAvD_BwE

Lithium Ion Polymer Battery

Battery

$10 Each

2

https://www.adafruit.com/product/258

Areas of concern

We are stilling working on how to light up the wires the way according to Playground Express

 

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Project Post #3: Light up Vest

Project Title: Light Up Jacket (“You are hot but you are cool”)

Project Team: Obasi, Jack

Weekly Accomplishment:

Obasi:

Worked on the sample jacket.

Search for materials and fabrics.

Design pattern for the jacket.

Jack:

Searched for ways to light.

Wrote basic code for Playground Express.

Purchased lights for the jacket. 

Worked on ways to detect jumping motion through code.

Images

Code function: if the more pixels light up when the sound is louder (only if the sound is above threshold)

Changes to our approach

  1. We will try to make a light jacket (perhaps with less stuffing), so people can wear it indoor
  2. We will try to make it with transparent fabric so that the lights can have a glowing effect
  3. For now, instead of detecting the bass, we will detect loud sound since bass can be very tricky to detect
  4. We will add a “bounce” feature so that when the performer jump on stage the color changes as well
  5. We decide to make a vest instead of a jacket since a vest can be worn indoor and look cool at the same time.

Material List (Still deciding which to buy)

El Wire:

Blue, Green, Orange & Yellow colorways

$1.35 Each

6 wires in total

https://www.ellumiglow.com/electroluminescence/electroluminescent-wire

Neon Pixel Strip

LED light

$12.5 Each

0.5m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3811?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZdN0k6gopEcaCGBKvVWR_YBFFRyOOqmAiFx3_1TthxETDxXecGo_ZhoCfAwQAvD_BwE

Mini Skinny Neon Pixel Strip

mini LED light

$24.95 Each

1m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2964?length=1

Lighting Tape Strip

Tape Strip

$8.95 Each

2 – 3?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/415?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZQ3VhhcbDMvufS2GybwBge1zBLfJYWrOkZuZkYsYJYpU8I2vnJNpxRoCb5oQAvD_BwE

Lithium Ion Polymer Battery

Battery

$10 Each

2

https://www.adafruit.com/product/258

Areas of concern

What would be the best way to detect jumping motion (significant jumping motion) through code? I tried to use acceleration and shake function on MakeCode but none of them seem to work the way as intended.

 

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Project Post #2: Light Up Jacket

Project Title: Light Up Jacket (“You are hot but you are cool”)

Project Team: Obasi, Jack

Weekly Accomplishment:

Obasi:

Worked on the sample jacket.

Search for materials and fabrics.

Jack:

Searched for ways to light.

Wrote basic code for Playground Express.

Images

Code function: if the more pixels light up when the sound is louder (only if the sound is above threshold)

Changes to our approach

  1. We will try to make a light jacket (perhaps with less stuffing), so people can wear it indoor
  2. We will try to make it with transparent fabric so that the lights can have a glowing effect
  3. For now, instead of detecting the bass, we will detect loudsound since bass can be very tricky to detect
  4. We will add a “bounce” feature so that when the performer jump on stage the color changes as well

Material List (Still deciding which to buy)

El Wire:

Blue, Green, Orange & Yellow colorways

$1.35 Each

6 wires in total

https://www.ellumiglow.com/electroluminescence/electroluminescent-wire

Neon Pixel Strip

LED light

$12.5 Each

0.5m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3811?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZdN0k6gopEcaCGBKvVWR_YBFFRyOOqmAiFx3_1TthxETDxXecGo_ZhoCfAwQAvD_BwE

Mini Skinny Neon Pixel Strip

mini LED light

$24.95 Each

1m – 2m

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2964?length=1

Lighting Tape Strip

Tape Strip

$8.95 Each

2 – 3?

https://www.adafruit.com/product/415?gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZQ3VhhcbDMvufS2GybwBge1zBLfJYWrOkZuZkYsYJYpU8I2vnJNpxRoCb5oQAvD_BwE

Lithium Ion Polymer Battery

Battery

$10 Each

2

https://www.adafruit.com/product/258