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1. State of the art, project management and documentation

This week I worked on defining my final project idea and started getting used to the documentation process.

My ideas for Fabricademy 2020-2021

The art of the possible.

I've always had more ideas than time in the day.

Here are a few...

  1. Create comfortable and beautiful lingerie
  2. Create resusable beautiful adult diapers
  3. Create fashionable and stylish wheelchairs
  4. Create fashionable walkers, canes, and other durable medical equipment
  5. Create stylish prosthetics
  6. Create interactive clothing and costumes: fingernail dress
  7. Create a stylish inflatable personal air bag for fall prevention
  8. Create on demand 3d printed or easy to assemble 2D cut lingerie
  9. Create interactive food packaging for kids (e.g., silly lunchbox, funny mustard bottle that tells jokes, smackers jelly jar that smacks you when you open it, etc.)
  10. Create interactive children's books
  11. Create interactive toys and forts for children
  12. Create beautiful interactive lighting and home furnishings
  13. Create stylish casts, orthotics and braces
  14. Create a wireless fetal heart monitor
  15. Create self folding clothing

State of the Art and Inspiration

1. Create comfortable and beautiful lingerie & 8. Create on demand 3d printed or easy to assemble 2D cut lingerie

I have been wearing a bra for over 3 decades and have not found one that is both comfortable and stylish. Some pinch or hurt less than others. But they almost always end up feeling like torture devices by the end of the day. The ones that provide support and comfort are rather ugly. Is it possible to find both style and comfort? Also I can imagine going to a store and perusing a digital catalog of lingerie, being measured and scanned and having a piece made just for you in the store. Less waste. Custom made. Ultimately there would be fewer discarded ill fitting pieces of lingerie clogging traditional brick and mortar stores and with custom designed on demand lingerie beautifully designed just for your body.

There are pioneers looking to create bespoke lingerie using digital technology.

I am also interested in exploring new fabrics for lingerie and creating lingerie kits for customers to download and assemble at home. I can imagine 3D printing the structure of a bra and then growing crystals or fabric over 3D printed structure.

Bespoke 3D printed bras are still cost prohibitive.

2. Create resusable beautiful adult diapers

There are washable and cute diapers for kids, but adult diapers are still disposable and rather ugly. There are opportunities for innovation in this domain. Thinx "Period panties" use wicking technology to absorb liquids and adult diapers could make use of similiar technology and innvation.

3. Create fashionable and stylish wheelchairs & 4. Create fashionable walkers, canes, and other durable medical equipment & 5. Create stylish prosthetics & 12 Create stylish casts, orthotics and braces

Fashion wheelchairs or wheelchhair skins that can transform a wheelchair to be an extension of your stle and body instead of a generic device. I've long held an interest in applying fashion, style and design to durable medical technology. Creating beautiful walkers, canes, shower stools, bed rails, that enhance the beauty of your home.

6. Create interactive clothing and costumes: fingernail dress

This is my 6 year old Henry's idea. A dress that were made to look like fingers or fingernails that moved as the user moved. This could be a fun, creepy but cool potential project.

7. Create a stylish inflatable personal air bag for fall prevention

Inflatable bike helmets exist and are very stylish. Hovding

However the technology was applied to reduce hip fractures and did not maintain the same elements of style. Inflatable airbag for seniors

9. Create interactive food packaging for kids (e.g., silly lunchbox, funny mustard bottle that tells jokes, smackers jelly jar that smacks you when you open it, etc.)

My son's ideas. Just for fun and silly.

10. Create interactive children's books & 11. Create interactive toys and forts for children

Create interactive books, toys and forts for kids with lights and sounds that the kids can adapt and change.

12. Create beautiful interactive lighting and home furnishings

I love interior design and furnishings and am interested in lighting and furniture design inspired by the body and nature

14. Create a wireless fetal heart monitor

Wired fetal heart monintors are uncomfortable and impede free movement in labor. Fashion and Wireless technology is needed in this domain.

15. Create self folding clothing

Imagine never having to fold clothing again. Here's a machine that folds clothes for you.

Fold I Mate

But what if the folding mechanism was built into the clothes and with a push of a button the clothing would fold itself up Like origami?

MIT researchers created AeroMorph an inflatable adaptable fabric that folds and changes shape like origami.

How to document

  1. Log into https://gitlab.fabcloud.org
  2. Browse to files and edit index.md
  3. Hit commit!!
  4. Don't worry if you have commitment issues, you can always revert to an earlier version
  5. Scaled down the size of images at tinypng then uploaded images in gitlab
  6. Edit week01.md
  7. Update mydocs.yml: file which adjust colors, fonts and links to control the style for your entire document
  8. Repeat process until happy with the result (note this can be an endless loop!)

Things I Learned about documentation and Markdown

Use the three backticks to separate code.

// HTML Code to create an ordered list
<ol>
  <li>item one</li>
  <li>item two </li>
  <li>item three</li>
</ol>

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Last update: October 5, 2020