Hoodie Circuit (2014)
Working with Sara Diaz and Katharina Bredies to create a hood that has knit speakers integrated in the ear areas of the hood, a Bluetooth module for wireless audio and Jussi Mikkonen’s wireless power module for charging.
Links:
>> Sound Hoodie
>> Sound Headband
>> Flickr set
Wireless Charging…
Wireless power >> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557041
Video >> http://youtu.be/oqtf3zOU1ew
Demo
Video:
Circuit Breakouts (flex and fabric)
Circuit dimensions, outline on tracking paper and scan of final circuit with conductive fabric pads for snaps:
Illustrator layout of fabric PCB, with flex breakout and with all layers:
Top: hacked circuit, Bottom: flex circuit as breakout to fabric breakout
Three layers of flex breakout pcb of hacked circuit to fabric circuit:
– copper with snaps
– double sided tape as mask
– snaps and solder connections showing/poking through to other side
Connections:
– solder connections from copper on flex circuit to hacked circuit
– sewing from conductive thread to snaps on fabric breakout board
– snaps that connect between flex breakout and fabric breakout
Front and back of fabric breakout:
Front and back of hacked circuit with flex breakout board:
Layers of the Knit Design
OUTER, INNER and MIDDLE layers:
Taking apart the Bluetooth Speakers
