Process interest & managment#

Sound modular device

Project#

I.D. Identity of the project
Title Study for a surface sound conductor (Soft circuit device experimentation)
Description A modular pattern with a sound device. The technical device can change with the shape and with differents connexions. My research is about a new materiality tool of sound and uses.
Assigments Wearables ( week 5 & 9 ) / Modular pattern ( Week 3 ) / Textile as scaffold ( Week 6 ) / Bio material (week3) / (Avoid : Skin Electronic week12) / Extra weeks to add : Open source machine

The technical dispositif device (G. Agamben) fills in different and complementary functions and aesthetics. The device wasn’t designed for the area of the ear but for different surfaces on the body or on the space where we are, it produces sound.

For Each module from the final object, I have following the differents steps of (research, providers, materials, technics, machines, related story and project) and iterations to manage the technic. Each module is a project or could be a project. Depends to the complexity of the knwoledge, the tools, the instructor, the budget, I have a good result or not.

The device integrates a circuit that I designed with Eagle, for which I also assembled my own multilayered conductive material with capton and copper shield that I stuck together.

The flexible pcb is an OP AMP with a LM4861 component (surface-mounted). The multilayered substrat is laser-cut and assembled in the fablab. Also I want to integrated the communication cable for the sound (jack) by sewing conductive thread directly on the modular garment.

I am in the process of testing designs to make my own speaker, for which I am testing differents coils patterns and membranes in interaction with the magnet.

For the moment, the device could play sound as a speaker and/or work as a portable microphone. To be define (Electred mic vs MEMs Mic). To integrate the device to the user’s body, I still need to design a shape that allows me to plug different electronic modules inside. This is the modular part.

One of my goals, after mastering the bioplastic production process, is to mobilise this technic to integrate better my electronic device on the body. At the moment I’m not planing to make a business out of my final project. I need more investigation on the ergonomie of the “object” as a dissemination plan I can kick started a community wether or not the bioplastics I have learned to make during fabricademy are safe for the human body.

I’m already part of a community composed of “designer” who work of different filed of design, I could bring up a collaboration project with friends or collegues who are designers. They could be happy to included the device in their own fashion show.

Also I would like to send of the community different part of the project because is very cheap to produce and it could be a good gift.

Sound modular device

Retroschedule MAP collection :#

For the retroschedule, for this project I don’t work with the classical way, from the contraints of production. I have worked like a performated fabrication sequency of serials tests to find combination of process : each day I favorite the tests protocoles. Then, after a sequency of weeks and trials with success and mystakes, I have a result. In this design experiment process I have favorised the technic than the shape or the product result. My practice of design is an everyday exercice, and this passion of the fabricating process will be continue after this sequency of tests. I hope so !

Map and retroschedule From January to marsh
Electronics time matter

In this way the intention of the project was more important than the result.

The start of the project was like an non-usefull goal, I wouldlike to find what I can do with the components in the lab to explore the sound device world.

The project take 2 mounth to learn how the electronic part work and 2 days for the global shape.

Technics and Assignments :#

  1. Textile as Scaffold
    • Avoid : 3D miling mold : I will use my mold for a packaging
    • Cristals : on a modular fabric piece one cristal what I have made with a LED inside, the modules can be grow-up, a mold that be use like a petri dishe.
  2. Modular fashion 2D > 3D
    • Notches : modular and parametric shape
  3. Wearable
    • Fabric circuits (how can do a pcb and how can do a soft circuit)
    • Avoid : solar pannel battery (lipo/solarpannels) : 11.03.2019 I stop the experimentations
    • Coil for speaker
    • Gold circuit research
    • Modular electronic component with different parts
  4. Still In Progress : Open machine
    • Automatic industrial Tricotin how to make chain and pieces of fabrics will continue with the colaboration of a Fabacademy student : Remy Ducros Fabacademy documentation
    • With the little 4 needle Tricotin, make the own protection electronic cable (for exemple)
  5. Bio materials
    • Bioplastic material for the substract of the pcb electronic circuit
  6. Skin electronics
    • Skin layered circuit device
    • Avoid : skin touch sensor with gold
    • Avoid : body digital 3D mold
  7. Optional : Implication and application
    • Process of contamination project developpement

Summary#

Map story project#

A time line explorations of process and experimentations.

Context of my research for the product#

Function and Functionning#

Around the shape#

This device could be on the skin, or close to the skin and around the hear, the battery and the jack will be on a piece of fabric on the body * A speaker : coil shape size of a 40 mm circle shape * A circle circuit * A modular connexions device between the electronic parts * A shape for differents surfaces like differents body, human or non-human

Dissemination plan#

Between Art / Fashion / Research / Fiction * Experiment part : to send a little piece of the device just the Cristal Light part as a gift to know the project * As a new product development : on the market, (in a few month) do a study with a pannel of different people, to look for she skin tollerance product and validate * For fashion : Instagram documentation for researchers and fashion addict of material * For art and music : Invite a Streetdanser to perform with this device * For fashion : Invite fashion designer at there own show to wear this hearing device * For sustainable development and for fun : Hack the web page of indusctrial agrofood industry who makes food bioplastic ingredient to diffuse the recipe of bioplastic ! * Make workshop with fine arts school

To develop after the fabricademy’s context#

I’m interested about how the music can be a tool, our tool to survive day by day in our routine with the context of multiples crises. I’m interested about the “care” notion, how the design can be a process to take care about people and earth through the process of the production for fashion design, product design etc… Maybe as Matali Crasset says “les poussées technologiques donnent de nouvelles façon d’être au monde”.

References#

Black Miror Duoskin tatoo

Tools & Project Managment :#

Design oriented process :#

My experimental ways to explore those many technics bring me to make that project :

It’s not a jewellery, it’s not a product, it’s not a garment, it’s not a skin, it’s not a hat, but it could be. It’s a SURFACE in 2D or 3D.

My different purpose :

Shape for my final project

Deliverable#

Time and TASK LIST Different parts on the body can be activated :#

Part A on the hears a kind of headphone speaker like a jewlery**

A.0 PROCESS#
A.1 the hears#
A.2 the sound#

Part B : modular surface to make fabric for the coil part

Part C : surfaces to control the speaker on the skin or in the space

Part D Light imput / output : Actuator and power supply

Part E an object to inflate and can be fixed on a furniture

Part F the shape