Final "Light Wings"

The idea of flying and the aesthetic beauty in swarms of fireflies inspired this dress that has electronic components incorporated into it. There are bright blue lights on the wings below the arm on each side, which gently fade in and out according to the flapping movement of the arm.
The black dress contrasts well with blue lights and immerses you into the magical environment the lights create. This dress is ideal for people who want a special elegant dress or for a performer who would enjoy choreographing with these light enabled wings. Get your best shoes out, put on this dress and take flight!

sewing the final wing part!

After finished soldering all the wires we manage to sewing all the fabric include see-through fabric to cover the LEDs.

Place the LEDs and soldering!

Place the LEDs on the dress. We put 20 LEDs(10 each side) with 3 raw.
After place LEDs, soldering together before connect the Lilypad so it will be easy to organize later on.

Final Concept

Step by step

sound and colour changes depend on right or left step

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Light-up Tap Slippers

Ideally this is for both two pair of shoes have LEDs on. I only used one pair of shoe for prototype!
Please imagine that both two pair of shoes have LEDs on.

Desciption

palce and hide the Button!

It has to right area to place the button because of "Tapping" part! My project idea is all about tapping the shoes so it changes the colours(see storyboard from old post). The foam helped not to pop out the button which hided quite well.

Hididng Lilypad & Battery

It was quite lucky that my shoe has the right size for hiding Lilypad and battery.
I used thin form layer between subsurface and the black leather fabric which hided wires and button popped out.

place the LEDs

Red & Blue LEDs connected to Lilypad. Two LEDs per pin.

Finding Meterials

I had shoes that has big hole on the hill part. it is great to hide Lilypad and Battery. I wanted use black leather looking fabric for cover the shoes so LED light brighter in dark area.

Storyboard for "The Dorothy's Shoes"

second idea:dorothy's ruby shoes

This idea came out from the movie"Wizard of OZ".
Basically the shoes covered from bunch of red leds, lights will be off until tapping shoes together.

Sketch of my idea

Using different colours each side of gloves,which will make user's performance more dynamic.

Presentation - Dream Jammies

Dream Jammies offer you a non-invasive way to see how your loved ones are sleeping - or not.

Dream Jammies are pajamas linked to an iphone. The pajamas’ sensors are embedded into the embroidery and connect people to their partner’s iphone which then displays an ambient colour that represents the state of sleep by using iPhone application.
They know whether user’s are standing or laying down, tossing or lying quietly. It also know users body temperature. This information is relayed to iPhone, and expressed on their screen in color, changing in realtime.
As person is lay down to sleep, the screen fades from green to blue, the shade of blue reflecting their body temperature. As person is roll around, the screen flickers red. By shaking the iPhone user’s partner is able to reach out, causing the chest of their pajamas to vibrate. it can be quite annoying while they sleep. but also can be an alarm clock.

Click here for the Dream Jammies's video

multiple colours or simple one colour?

I want to make my project quite dynamic without using multiple colours. I think the maximum number of colours will be 3~4.

What to wear?

I've been thinking about what part of our body to use for my project. First think that cames of mind was the "Gloves". I could use for sign language or for dance party.
Here some images I found from net.
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Dancepants MP3 Player

the conceptual Dancepants Kinetic Music player would "motivate you to move your feet in order to hear your music." Better shuffle about while taking that breather, or no pump-up tunes for you.


"And as long as you keep running or dancing you can be sure you won't run out of battery." We may yet reach the point where we need to self-power all our gadgets, but until that day arrives, bring on the batteries or socket chargers.

Learning about Lilypad

peaking of fashion & technology, here comes LilyPad. LilyPad is basically the hardware you’ll need to do that. It was developed by Leah Buechley & SparkFun and it’s based on Arduino, an open source hardware project based on Wiring based on Processing. It’s a modular system with an accelerometer, a light sensor, a tri-color LED.

My inspiration

I've been looking all over the web searching for inspiration for this course and found so many variety designs and remarkable ideas.
Here are some web site link to the designs that really inspired me.

http://hautegear.com/

http://www.scienceahead.com/entry/top-21-wearable-technologies/

http://www.impactlab.com/2006/03/26/future-of-fashion-wearable-technology/