12. Skin Electronics¶
Research¶
In my investigation into skin electronics, several different ways are being applied. I think the area to look into that is the most interesting is the medical field. That I think is the most applicapble and useful to us and society.
Iner ear mottior ditrctor as EEG More Rearch
References & Inspiration¶
Arm Attachment Skin Electronics
Also found a brand that was woking with more hair clips and face elctonics called cosmicaccents.
Also found abother gilr that 3D printed feathers that I wanted to add into my desing as well with the elctronics.
Tools¶
- 3D printer
- LED lights
- Alligator Clips
- Copper Wire
- Fabric
- Scissors
- Arduino Program
- Flora Cuirt Board
Skin Senor * Medical Tape * Condutive Copper Tape * Velostat * Isolation Tape * Arduino Program * Flora Cuirt Board
With in the week of skin eletronics we saw capacitive sensors
Code Example¶
For the Skin senor used one anlog and one digital capacity senor.
/// #include
include ¶
CapacitiveSensor sensor = CapacitiveSensor(9);
define PIN 8¶
define NUMPIXELS 1¶
Adafruit_NeoPixel pixels(NUMPIXELS, PIN , NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);
define DELAYVAL 500¶
int potentiometer=A9; int value; int valMap;
void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode(potentiometer, INPUT); Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
value=analogRead(potentiometer); valMap= map(value,50,400,0,255); Serial.println(value); delay(1); pixels.clear(); pixels.setPixelColor(0, pixels.Color(0, valMap,0)); } ///
/// Digital
#include
include ¶
CapacitiveSensor sensor = CapacitiveSensor(10,9);
define PIN 8¶
define NUMPIXELS 1¶
Adafruit_NeoPixel pixels(NUMPIXELS, PIN , NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);
define DELAYVAL 500¶
void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); pixels.begin();
// put your setup code here, to run once:
}
void loop() { long measurement = sensor.capacitiveSensor(30); Serial.println(measurement); delay(10);
if(measurement > 200 ){ pixels.clear(); pixels.setPixelColor(0, pixels.Color(24,230,54)); pixels.show();
}else{ pixels.clear(); pixels.setPixelColor(0,pixels.Color(0,0,0)); pixels.show();
///
Process and workflow¶
First, I had to ideate and sketch out an idea that I could make in a couple of days. But in the end, I opted for an earing peace that would have some LEDS and 3D-printed elements.
After making the skeleton of the design and using some players and bras to make the shape, I had to plan out the schematics for the LEDS and after wards solder them together and print out the 3D feathers.
Test of electronic schematics
For the 3D feathers, I followed a YouTube video turiorial. Still, for the shape itself, I looked up some feather outlines and took them into Illustrator. I then saved them as an SVG, opened them in Rhino, and extruded the curves. It's essential to take the two parts of the feathers as separate files to bring into Cura and change the setting for each part to change the direction of the father's print.
Final Result¶
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