Wearable Assignment-Use Conductive Fabric
I began the assignment, with the idea that I wanted to include some element of fun into a garment. The final idea was to create a handbag that moved. Here was my process:
I started with a plain, blue/green handbag.
I found a picture of hula dancers, printed them out on transfer paper and ironed the image onto the handbag.
Then I wired up my breadboard to a servo motor, and attached an Arduino for my microcontroller, and wrote code for the motor to move back and forth.
Then I cut a hole into the image on the bag, inserted the top of the servo motor, and screwned the bag and the servo together. Later, I glued fabric onto the top of the motor to form the image of a hula skirt.
I then made a switch for the motor, in the form of a handbag closure. I used metal snaps, with conductive fabric on the back of the snaps, and stitched the fabric to the inside of the bag.
Finally, the bag was finished!
