Author: tianhony@andrew.cmu.edu

Project Objectives Lunch Time for the Puppy is an interactive children’s fabric book. The book is made from felt and other fabric material with different textures, and is embedded with soft sensors and electronic output elements for creating a rich storytelling experience. We produced a proof of concept prototype of the design by making one
Continue reading Lunch time for the puppy — an interactive fabric book.

Demo of a page in a puppy-themed interactive fabric book We used the Multi-Touch Kit Software Toolkit and attached it to the back of the left ear of the puppy. The only other digital intput is a fabric button hidden underneath the puppy’s belly. For outputs, we combined visual, audio, and haptic feedbacks using LEDs,
Continue reading 5/5 Catherine&Yanwen Final Critique

This week, Yanwen rewired her sensor grid and put it on a different surface(cutting board to desk surface) and the reading becomes much clearer. Both the single and multi-touch detections became much more reliable, so we think that we have a sensor grid fabrication method that we can reliably test on now. We tried adding
Continue reading 4/19 Catherine & Yanwen Updates

We rewired the 3×3 sensor grid we had last week and the signals become much cleaner, so I think the noisy signal from last week is caused by error in wirings. We were able to figure out a somewhat efficient way to create the sensor grid and fabricated a 6×6 sensor grid(which still took 2h+)
Continue reading 4/12 Catherine & Yanwen Update

We decided to use the open source multi-touch kit and purchased the parts needed for the kit. We also brainstormed on how to integrate the technology into our fabric book in a specific scenario. We decided to extend on the Jellycat If I were a Puppy Board Book and integrate digital tactile inputs, digital outputs(sound,
Continue reading Mar 29th, Catherine&Yanwen Update

We are making a children’s fabric book with soft sensors to create an interactive playful experience. It is an interactive storytelling experience augmented by using sensor inputs and outputs to create different story outcomes. By adding digital interactive elements to the fabric book, we hope to explore innovative ways of letting young children to learn
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For the initial proof of concept for making the children’s fabric book, we will be trying to create a list of selected sensors and conduct tests with the results. It will be a more technical prototyping stage and these prototypes will help us decide which of the input means fit the most with the responses,
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Project synopsis We are making a themed children’s fabric book with soft sensors to create an interactive playful experience.  By adding digital interactive elements to the fabric book, we hope to explore innovative ways of letting young children to learn and practice skills through tactile experiences with the help of soft electronics.  The fabric book
Continue reading Clarifying Research Scope

I was inspired by the self-contained on-skin pcb for the hand, where placement of electronic components are separated into individual PCB islands, then distributed over the body surface, and connected through a novel skin-wiring approach that deposits conformal multi-stranded metallic wires on thin silicon substrates through a sewing-based technique.  The similar approach of creating PCB
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