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The Language of Rain by Ailun Sai

People have a mixture of emotional responses to the rain. Some people enjoy it, while others do not. However, if you consider rain as a friend who is just telling a story to you, then you will love the feeling of touching it. I think the rain has its own emotion and this jacket uses music and light to translate the rain’s emotion into a physical experience for people. With the changing color of the LED sewed onto the jacket and the tempo of the beats, you can immerse yourself in the rainy scene.

Test video

Here is my instructable.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Language-of-Rain/

And the video.

Rainbeats translator jacket

So, here are the parts you should prepare:

A piece of DotStar digital LED stipe, Adafruit Pro Trinket, Lithium lon polymer Battery, etape liquid level sensor, resistors, Arduino Uno

1, Connect one end of the battery to the LED strip and the other end of the resister.

Complete the circuit by connecting the resister to the LED strip.

2, Sew the LED strip on the edge of the raincoat.

3, Prepare a plastic tube and dig a tiny hole on the bottom of it.

4, connected all the circuits with the etape in, then put it into the tube.

5, We should also made a small 3d printing triangle model which could be sewed on the top of the raincoat. It will help the tube collecting rain. Because the quantity of the rain will controls how fast the beats creates.

6, Now we come to the most difficult part – to write the programs in your Arduino.

Now, wearing your raincoat, Let’s embrace the rain.

Final Project Ideas

1，When it is rainy or windy outside, we always feel depressed or a little bit afraid. But what if we just imagine the wind and rain are just talking to us. So I want to design a device that sticks on the window. There is a humidity sensor or press sensor? inside it which could translate the beats of the rain and wind to some emoji showing on the screen or some cheerful music.

2, A drum that can show the drumbeats. It is used when teaching or improvisation. The drums are connected. So when one beats on the drum, the other’s drum will have a led signal, so they can follow the first one. I am thinking if the device is better for teaching a single drum or the drum set.

CIRC-04 servo

Light bag continue

My switch project continues my last light bag project. I added a snap to the new bag, so when the bag is open, the light will on.

The Arduino part is not difficult. But I spent a lot of time on making the bag looks nicer. I made a small seat for the Arduino and I hide all the electronic things inside the bag.

There are multiple ways to wear it. The inside LED not only alert you if the bag is not closed, but also helps users to look for things inside easily.

Here is the video. https://youtu.be/RO5rPVtn_Yo

Arduino CIRC-8,9,13

Bag with Light by Ailun Sai

I always forget to close my bag well or zip it. So I made a bag which could alert me. When I open the bag, the light will automatically on. Also, the light helps me to look for the stuff inside the bag easier. Then if I do not close the bag well, it will continue on until I realize the problem and close it.