IAT320 - Day2: Production Process

With the Arduino Board, we first programmed the Arduino code and tested the results with LED's on the breadboard. Afterwards, we moved on to embedding the LED's and sewing the contact points onto the glove. LED's and the contact points are all connected and sewn on the glove by connective threads. In order to connect everything together, we had to make sure that none of the connective threads touched each other. Our solution was to sow the threads in between the glove's stitching to hold the thread in place and minimize probability of different threads making unneccessary contact. Most of the contact points on the gloves are sewn with double threads to increase the contact area. Then we secured the wire notches onto the glove with connective thread and link each wire to their destined contact point individually.

Circuit diagram


Circuit diagram on the glove


Sewing one of the contact points


The LEDs on the glove



Another contact point


Back of the LEDs


Back of a contact point




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IAT320 - Day1: Project Ideation

We came up with 3 ideas for our mini project, in which 2 of them were way too complicated to achieve within the time frame we had. Our inspiration for our final idea came from Valentines Day - when couples hold hands. The concept is to have a set of gloves that has LED's sewn on the backside of each glove. The interaction is between 2 people - where the LED's will light up when 2 people hold hands. The more contacts that the glove has with the other, the LED's will blink in different speeds. The materials we are thinking of using are: Arduino board, Arduino program, normal red LED's, bright white LED's, wires, 1 set of gloves, connective thread and a breadboard.










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Getting a functional windshield washer system back in my car

Ever since taking out the windshield washer bottle back in August 2009, I had been driving my car without a functional windshield washer system.
When the weather is bad (raining), it doesn't matter because the rain water keeps the window wet.
But then when the weather is good and a fine layer of dust is on the windshield, I can't wipe it.

I finally had time a few weeks ago to put something in there.

First, I made a new bracket for the intake pipe to free up some space.
Bending metal by hand without power tools is not easy.


Sprayed some paint on it to prevent rust.


The original bracket at a 45 degree angle taking up space


The original bracket and my own bracket


Now with a little more space


A universal water pump


soldered blade connectors on to plug into the original plug


Everything tied down and secured


The new location for the washer fluid bottle


On the same day, I was helping a friend fix his headlight, so while he also had his bumper off, I stuck mine on for fun.



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