Making Studio

Laser-cut Light-up Jockstrap

Sorry this is really late…..

This is a product for all those bois that have ever dared to go to an underwear party or a circuit party, and want to be the center of attention.

Look thats him on top!

I picked this because I think its a fun idea that hasn’t been done. I also picked it because I am fairly confident that I can construct a jockstrap

These are my materials:

Lycra, Elastic, Arduino board, motion sensor, pixels, and pixel strip.

The front pouch is made of two pieces of fabric and will house the Flora board and the battery pack. The Pixel strips will be on the sides of the jockstrap and the waist band will have a laser cut logo.

Tshirt + Nightlight

Originally I wanted to create a body-shaped pillow that would light up / pulsate in the area that the human heart is located, giving it a comforting “life” for the user while sleeping. Instead, I plan on designing a plush, hanging light with fabric repurposed from a Tshirt—a light similar to the white, charging light located on the front of the MacBook Pro, slowly fading in and back out. The design I have in mind is a pod shape connected to a wire or conductive thread ( if other pods are to be attached on the strand )

Terrarium Light

I have gotten the idea of making a light up terrarium mobile in my head and I’m not quite ready to give it up. It has been brought up to me that I may have trouble dealing with messy wires that may make this project difficult. I am hoping that I will be able to work around that issue by using conductive thread or yarn to hang the objects from my mobile. I want to make a mobile that has hanging pods for air plants. These pods will light up. Here are a few photo inspirations:

I plan on sewing little pods to hold the air plants. I also plan on making a push on-off switch that would be one of the elements hanging from the mobile. Below are some material possibilities:

Flash night light

I change the word cupcake and upcycled to flash light.

I want to simulate the process of igniting the fire.

I will use wool felt and cotton to sew all the things in this project,like the fire ,candle,firebox. As I have been to North Europe twice, the Nordic like to use wool felt to make things. Because wool felt can bring them warmness.

In the night, My work ,the wool felt with fire ,can reveal the warmth in the home. Especially for the children, they can experience this fire process without considering safety issues.

The GIF can show my idea:

And I want to use two motion sensors. One is to simulate the candle strike the firebox. The other detects the shaking motion of the litten candle which can ignite the fire. (As there are two things, I need to use two boards to control the different light, One is flora board, the other is Arduino UMO board)And I want to make the light twinkle just as the real fire.

I only have blue led, I need to buy the red one.

Just touch the resistance, the led can be twinkle and twinke.

However, I am wondering that the leds I use can be bright enough though the wool felt? Some expects suggest me can use food preservation kit which is light-conductive to pack the led. Or maybe I need to buy the big and brighter led? I have searched and ask other experts, is it piranha LED can be as my light?

Privacy Notifying Plush Light

Last time I had avoided sexual connotations while I was making my awkward privacy device.. But this time it is kind of impossible with these new words: “night light” and “plush”.. Well, Becky told that any project would be possible as soon as they include sewing and lights. But I thought I can make a “love notifying” hanger which receives the data from the movement sensor embedded into the bed and sends this data to the LED containing sweet plush door hanger. On the other hand, is it too crazy?

Musical Instrument + Sowing + Light

A wearable portable disco ball ! Every time you go to a boring party, or want to have more fun at night stays, put on ure own music and enjoy the disco lights which dance along (integrated in the wearable) …. ??!

“Automatic” Fuzzy Night Sky

I’d like to create a picture of the night sky. The material inside the picture frame will be fuzzy. Everytime someone passes by, the stars will “automatically” twinkle. Maybe I can include a little jingle that plays in a 10 second loop as well.

Radiantly Clutch.

Hello,

My two words I chose at the beginning of this class was camouflage & luggage tags. I am choosing to go with luggage, dropping the tags, and create a glowing mohair bag.

But in my research I found a glowing bag was already on the market.

I know everything has been done before, but I think i have a better idea with creating a mohair clutch that you can throw into any bag and take it out when going to a dark bar or club and have a nightlife light.

I would like the bag to grow brighter the more you shake it. The sparkle dress code, might be the way to go with this project. What are your thoughts?

– Brandon

Make It Bigger

The word that I’m continuing to use is “Party Favor”. Taking from the last project and the idea of “connection” , I want to create a life size plushy nightlight. My proposal is to create a plushy that can light up if you press or hold their hand. I also want to take it outside and have it be sensitive to touch and pressure so it’s heart or head can light up. I have been working with a plushy called ” Big Head” for the past few years. My interest is to provide comfort and joy through the physical connection that we had as kids playing with our stuff animals.

Here is a picture of ” Big Head”

Project Proposal – Flash light

My word was Halloween and Animated Gif, but I wanted to change my word to Flash Light.

It would be made with soft material on the outside, so when I squeeze the handle, the light gets brighter or dimmer depending on how much pressure is being applied to the handle.

It’ll need some sort of structure inside to hold the led, arduino, and battery, and the fabric will act as a diffuser for the bright led.