Jingwen Zhu
A wearable project that visualize API and display them with neopixels on a dress, and users can choose which API they want to connect with their phone via bluetooth low energy.
Description
During Making Sense of Wearables class, I began thinking about how garments, things we are wearing, can affect our lives. How the garments look affects our personal identification, our relationship to the nature. Nowadays, people spend too much time indoor, making them become insensitive to things happening in the real world. Dressing Everything is an experimental project that use garments to visualize APIs, to let users get to know what's happening in the outside world, in nature. For this prototype, I designed a dress with three neopixel strips that can display weather API. It will show different color patterns when weather changes, and users can change which city's weather displayed on the phone through bluetooth low energy. It can also been connected to Foursquare API, and when the user come near the ice-cream shop, the dress will change color to ice-cream. Or it can be connected to New York Times API, and when there's a new article about feminism posted, the dress change color into pink.
Classes
Critical APIs, Making Sense of Wearables