week 1: lightable lace wrist cuff

For the first week project, I'm planning to create a lace wrist cuff with LEDs light up as decoration. I'll make a pair of it if everything goes smoothly. 

First, I  measure the length of the cloth I need with the reference of the shirt I'm wearing. Then I cut off a sripe of white sparkling cloth to sew. I place three LEDs, a button battery, and a button to where I want to put them and then mark the postion on the cloth with a pen.


Then I sew them in the cloth, makin sure that all the LEDs are in the same circuit direction.


After buttoning my circuit, oooops! Nothing light up : (

So I check the LED individually but then they don't light up individually as well. 


Now I realize that I should check if the LED works before sewing them. I got three new LEDs and test them and they work. So I take one LED off from the cloth stripe and sew a new one in. 

Strangely, the working Led doesn't work anymore after sewed into the cloth! I considered a few possible problems:

- the threas is not conductive (proven wrong),

- the LED brokes while sewing (don't know),

- the battery runs our (proven wrong);

However, I desided to finish my design anyways as a prototype even though the circuit is not working. 




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After a break from sewing and coming back, I realize that I made a short circuit. Instead of re-sewing everything directly on the cloth, I made a reference with LEDs, wires and breadboard and tested with the button battery. The baterry is running out too so I used a newly bought one.

Then I draw the circuit diagram to make how to sew the conductive thread more clearly. It gets messy when I sew threads without a refrence, and a disgram is simply more clear.


Finally it works out : ) Then I decided to make another to be a pair. Already having a success model, the second one only takes about 10-20 min while the first one takes hours. My sewing also looks better in the second cuff. 


So here's my very first wearable tech design, how exciting! I will wear the lace wrist cuff I made tomorrow and collect some feedbacks from others.

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