Experiments in Communication

You can only see that the LEDs are lit through the camera!

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I gave the test tube amulet to one of my friends to wear for a few days and get feedback from her about it. Hoping to do the same with the others soon as well.

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It took much more time than I had expected, but I was able to get the battery and the screen into the locket, and to attach leads made of conductive fabric to both the battery and the screen, which make contact when the locket is closed. My main problem now is that the contact they make isn't reliable enough, and sometimes you have to squeeze the locket shut to get the slideshow running smoothly.

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Drilling through glass turned out not to be as difficult as I had thought. I followed some advice from Anastasia Chung, a jeweler that I met with for help on some of my pieces, which was to submerge the glass piece under water while I am drilling it, to avoid it getting too hot and breaking. I also used special drillbits for drilling through glass. The results were very clean. I made one hole all the way through for the camera and one partial hole for the blinkng LED. Now I just have to figure out how to secure the battery in the back. Here is a video of the eye in action, followed by production photos.

The eye is being taped down to the tupperware (with a little bit of foam between the two, to avoid drilling through the tupperware), before being submerged in water.

holes!

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I made these two models for the bluetooth. Though they are pretty, please ignore the colors of the models. The finished pieces will either be metal or resin, and the color (if they are resin) is still pretty undefined. The blue one was the first one that I made, after the sketch of the one that looks a bit like a shield, and it came out looking maybe a little too sharp/aggressive (though compared to the green one it might be more elegant). Unfortunately it turned out too narrow in the end to fit the bluetooth board inside it, so I made a second one, which I tried to make a bit more like the drawing, and also made sure would fit the electronics inside it. It came out a little lopsided, as I can't seem to saw straight, but I think it makes it look pretty good. Still not sure which one I like though. I will take some photos with the reed switch tomorrow, see how it looks as a whole.

I also started on the case for the locket, but just the back part of it, that's going to hold the battery and the screen. I wanted it to be convex from the back, so that it feels nicer. Still need to work on making it a little more oval (or round).

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The little connected circles will be a chain, and the horizontal thing is a reed switch, which is made of glass, and looks kind of like this:

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