presentation material

Abstract / Thesis Statement

I kept on making excuses for not working on the paper... booey..

So here's how the statement goes:
"Millow is a technology integrated comfort object, that critiques and questions the products for substituting another human being, by projecting the mother's image on a pillow for adults who live far away from their hometown."

i know, it sound odd, but it's getting there.

timeline

Slide 1: Hello World
Slide 2: What is it – Thesis Statement
Slide 3: Itself – Demoing
Slide X: Cheech’s story
Slide 4: Turning adults into children
Slide X: comfort object x security blanket
Slide 5: similarities with the mother
Slide X: Substitution
Slide X: Design, a mommy circle and baby circle.
Slide 6: Technology: unexpected input to unexpected output
Slide X: Schematics (?)
Slide 7: The magic effect – oooo, maaagic
Slide X: Domains (leads into precedents)
Slide X: precedents: approach to how much technology can substitute
Slide 8: The history of the object: Timeline (methodology)
Slide 9: Emcy: What remained what omitted
Slide 10: Iteration 2 and 3
Slide 11: Moomi
Slide 12: approach to how much technology can substitute
& Sliding towards an approach rather than being a consumer product

Texture Dilemma

Right now I'm in between two options:
One is to cover the thingy with a texture like this:

or just go solid blue: (which means that I have to find a matching color)


It all depends on how my stamping experience will go.


Oh the blanket has sort of changed into a pillow. Let's see. let's see. I'm very excited.

Presentation Outline - still working on it

Slide 1: Hello World
Slide 2: What is it – Thesis Statement
Slide 3: Itself
Slide X: User Scenario
Slide X: Cheech’s story
Slide 4: Turning adults into children
Slide 5: Effects that are looked for : replacement of a mother
Slide 6: Technology: unexpected input to unexpected output
Slide 7: The magic effect.
Slide X: Domains (leads into precedents)
Slide X: precedents: approach to how much technology can substitute
Slide 8: The history of the object: Timeline (methodology)
Slide 9: Emcy: What remained what omitted
Slide 10: Iteration 2 and 3
Slide 11: Moomi
Slide 12: Depression: what am i?. approach to how much technology can substitute
Slide 13: Sliding towards an approach rather than being a consumer product
Slide 14: The midterm
Slide 15: Going back
Slide 16: Current version

Updates

Wow, It's been a while.
Here are a few updates:

++The latest design changed into a simpler shape, yet it serves to the concepts a lot better.



++ about the ink and thread: I tried to sew up in longer threads as realized that it was losing heat along the way and wasn't creating the effect I was looking for.

Also the stitching doesn't have to be this tight, which means I will use less thread ( and therefore less power).

== Testing on a lot of fabric, different curing times and positioning of the thread and the ink, I have FINALLY come to a decision. The blanket will be a little quilted, it will carry some normal stitching, but when the input comes through the conductive thread will heat the fabric from underneath and the image will magically appear.

++ I have started building the final prototype: Here's the top part which contains the microphone.


!!++ I have showed the small little prototype to people who are not related with conductive thread and thermochromic inks. They loved the idea of magical apperance. But since that iteration wasn't in a blanket form but a patch of cloth, they couldn't experience the whole project.

Important Setbacks:
It's quite tricky with working such material because many times they decide not to work. Sometime when they sit without working a day, they go back to normal. I guess I have to clean my code for it, because it's such a mess.

The classic problem of power: The batteries are running out very easy. since I can only use 9V, they don't feel comfortable in a wearable or a blanket. Actually I haven't tried giving lower voltage.. Let's see. Worth giving a try.

The name is an issue that I have to solve.


Ahh.. I only wish the final presentation was postponed.. but of course it won't happen.. sigh..

ink with thread

yippiierrssss!!

the sound circuit

So the microphone circuit is FINALLY working. I started sketching a few circuits before but never got this far in it.





Right now the circuit can take audio at a certain level and initiate a different circuit. So when someone cries into the circuit, a different circuit can start.



For the termochromic ink reaction, I'm still expecting the conductive thread, which is insisting on not being delivered. Till then I'll try to get something with wires and see how much power it needs to achieve a good color change.

If everything works out, I'll add the breathing as well.. but let's see..