A Space Engineer! Laurence is featuring in the neighbourhood and has joined us since the summer of 2014! We wasted no time on pizza and curry (well, pizza and curry is never a waste of time) and get going with researching and establishing the characteristics of various COTS wearable materials (conductive inks, tapes, threads...) and components with Arduino with a dear and dense packet from Adafuit.
Beyond the starting point, here are some of the plans for future integration and investigation:
During the time-boxed 2 wo-man days (and nights) worth of work, this phase has achieved the following:
* Arduino has been chosen for the rapid prototype because it's something that I have on hand. It would be an easy migrate to Adafruit's wearable line of products from Arduino. This is where it got to after about 36 hours of work: (this website and research included!) exoskn from Citizen Inventor on Vimeo. |