Plusea

Working in London (2012)

Gloves in New Fabrics

Rachel’s Studio

Backhub Layout

Fabric Selection

Firday Dinner

Sensor Seb’s Sensors

Fabric Shopping

Shapelock Mic Holder

x-IMU Neoprene Tray with Powermesh Cover

RGB LED and vibration motor driver board mod

Because of the pin-out of the SMD RGB LED we are using (MODEL NO: 5060BRG4 datasheet), i think it makes sense to choose the following AUX port connections:
Green = Aux0
Red = Aux2
Blue = Aux4
Motor = Aux6

Because of the 100mA current limit of the x-IMU:
– Light flickers when motor is on full power
– And white turns pink when motor is on full power

Photos of temporary mod to driver circuit for Wednesday deadline:

Sketches of driver circuit mod and future tapered PCB design with SMD mounted IDC connector:

Video of testing (with mistake) >> http://youtu.be/-nMOJq1F4bA
Video of it working (coming soon) >>

Internal Pull-up Resistors on x-IMU????

Plan is for Seb to figure out either:
– Use internal pullups and scrap extra circuitry
– Seb designs inline pull-up PCB with SMD mounted IDC connector

Low-profile surface-mount resistors for in-line circuit:
SMD 0805 50K Ohm resistors >> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/surface-mount-fixed/6620613/

In-between Finger Sensor

Modifying design to move one bend sensor from ring finger to between ring and middle finger, to measure the distance between them.

Altarnative to bend sensor: use Hall Effect Sensor for measuring distance between fingers?
DigiKey (USA) >> http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/A1324LLHLT-T/620-1402-1-ND/2639992
RS (UK) >> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hall-effect-sensor/6807116/
Datasheet >> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allegromicro.com%2F~%2FMedia%2FFiles%2FDatasheets%2FA1324-5-6-Datasheet.ashx&ei=sjHmTqakAs2EtgesnLzLBA&usg=AFQjCNFWwFzT6UbN3t3lr5pI_YSy7vlGyw
Magnets >> http://www.kjmagnetics.com/categories.asp

Decorative LED Circuitry

PARTS:
LED Lights:
White 1206 SMD LEDs
Digikey >> http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/LTW-150TK/160-1737-1-ND/758709
RS >> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/7031187/

Control (microcontroller):
ATtiny85 (5 i/o pins, GBP 2.20 each)
RS >> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/microcontroller/6962327/
programming ATtiny with Arduino >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=3408

Arduino Mini (20 i/o pins, GBP 13 each)
Cool components (UK) >> http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/images/products/09218-01c_i_ma.jpg
Sparkfun (USA) >> http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9218

After Dinner Notes

Trying on new gloves for fit

Videos of decorative lights

List of Things-to-Do
– Test decorative LED lights: embedding and control using arduino mini via x-IMU AUX port control
– Update glove wrist-band design to include x-IMU neoprene wrist tray, wired LED connections and vibration motor
– …

Saturday & Sunday

Video of gloves with differently mounted in-between finger sensors. Left hand: ring (Imogen is married to her gloves). Right hand: generic (nothing special).

Graphing in-between sensor values to compare and decide which works (and looks) best:

Sewing powermesh x-IMU pouch:

Thursday

Driver Board

Using Seb’s to-scale driver-board print-out we decided that we would like the board to face down/over the x-IMU. Since the board is also slightly larger (than the pull-up resistor board) this also helps eliminate strain on the connectors (board to board) from anything that might catch or push against the driver board… we remain open to suggestions.