First for everyone What are your personal thoughts and feelings about your finished project?
My personal thoughts on my project are that it is very cool. It does exactly what I was hoping it would. Also it has given me a cool project to work on in the summer when I have free time.
What are they greatest strides you made in this course?
I think my greatest strides in this course where in the non computer side, which would be sewing. I now understand some many little things about sewing that I didn’t know before. Whether it be from using the sewing machine to hand sewing or techniques to help sew better and more efficient.
What else do you wish you would have learned?
I wish I would have been able to play around with micro controllers a little more and learn a little more about it, but my project didn’t have any use for it. Other than that I cant think of anything. I think the course/project exposed me to many new things and it was fun learning different stuff.
What could have made your project better?
If I would have been able to integrate more of the charging unit directly into the pocket. But with the amount of time and first time doing this type of project I am happy even without that.
Jeans designed with a special pocket for wireless charging capabilities.
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Describe what your project does and how it works:
My project uses inductive charging to wirelessly charge a phone while it is in the pocket of a pair of jeans. There are 3 main parts to the design. The first is the battery pack with built in wireless charging transmitter. The second is the phone or device itself and the last is the pocket for the transmitter as well as the pocket that restricts the phones movement in the jeans. The transmitter creates an alternating electromagnetic field that the phones wireless receiver can convert into electricity to charge the phone. The pocket is designed to keep the wireless transmitter and the phones wireless receiver as close as possible. Doing this allows the unit to function with a higher efficiency.
Describe your overall feelings on your project. Are you pleased, disappointed, etc.?
I am very pleased with my project and the way it turned out. Although the project was not very technique from a CS perspective, I feel that it does exactly what I wanted it to do. I was able to learn new skills while doing the project such as sewing. I also was able to remove parts from my design that would have made my project more cumbersome and harder to build, specifically using parts from adafruit to build something that already exists. The jeans function very well and are still surprisingly comfortable to wear.
Describe how well did your project meet your original project description and goals.
It met my original designs very well. It does exactly what I set out to do and that was create a pocket in a pair of jeans that could provide wireless charging capabilities. While I did change some of the ways I constructed/built the project the overall concept and final product is exactly what I wanted.
Describe the largest hurdles you encountered. How did you overcome these challenges?
Some of the hurdles that I encountered were when deciding if I should try and build my own wireless charging unit or buy one that functions well. I first tried to build my own with parts from adafruit and sparkfun but found out quickly that it was far more cumbersome and less reliable then using an already built charging unit. So I did some research and found a well built and highly rated portable wireless charger that I thought would work well with my project design. My other hurdles were in the construction of the pockets themselves. I first tried to build my own pockets which proved to be very challenging. It was the first time I really had to sew something completely from scratch. While attempting to build my own pockets I found out the order in which you sew something is very important. When trying to sew my two mock pockets I messed up a couple of times trying to figure out the correct order in which what parts should be done first. In the end this didn’t matter that much because I ended up using the pockets that were in the jeans and made modifications to the to complete my design.
Describe what would you do next if you had more time
If I had more time I would have defiantly liked to have made improvements to my design. The first is reducing the overall size of the charging unit. The second would be to remove all heavy and bulky parts from the pocket, only keeping the wireless charging coil in the pocket. I would have also liked to look into smaller and lighter battery technology as well as using a conductive thread to implement the transmitter directly into the pocket.
List the final materials used in your project
Wireless Portable Charger, 10,000 mAh Power Bank Qi Battery Charger. Link to charger
Men’s Lee Extreme Motion Stretch Straight Jeans.Link to jeans
Fabric from class that is used in pocket construction.
one sentence that describes your project: A pair of wireless charging jeans that gives you the freedom to go about your day without having to worry about your phones battery life.
weekly accomplishments: I have began researching parts for the second iteration of my project. Where I would like to only integrate the wireless charging transmitter directly into the pocket. I have bought 2 wireless charging transmitters. I have looked into flexible batteries such as Jenax’s Jflex batteries.
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Wireless Portable Charger, 10,000 mAh Power Bank Qi Battery Charger. Link to charger
Men’s Lee Extreme Motion Stretch Straight Jeans.Link to jeans
Fabric from class that is used in pocket construction.
weekly accomplishments: This week I finished my integration of the wireless charger into the jean pocket of my new jeans. The internal pocket holds the wireless charger in position next to the phone. I also finished sewing the the pocket that hold the phone being charged. I wore the pants and confirmed that the phone charges via wireless charging.
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material list:
Wireless Portable Charger, 10,000 mAh Power Bank Qi Battery Charger. Link to charger
Men’s Lee Extreme Motion Stretch Straight Jeans.Link to jeans
Fabric from class that is used in pocket construction.
areas of concern:I do not have any concerns that this time about my project.
weekly accomplishments: This week I was able to incorporate my wireless charging battery pack into my jeans, and get it to charge my phone wirelessly while it sat in the pocket. Next week I will trying it on another pair of jeans that should give more space for both the phone and the charger.
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material list: Wireless Portable Charger,10000mAh Power Bank QI Battery Charger. Link to charger
areas of concern: I feel pretty good about my project, since I am now using a prebuilt wireless charger. Also I changed how I will be adding the phone to my pants pockets. I will just altering the existing pocket. This will give the cleanest final product and I can show that it is easy for other people to do it to their own jeans.
