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10/07/2002

These are some of my ideas

Ideas: - Self rolling sleeves -Automatic uprolling pant’s legs -Ventilating socks -Warming hat -Cooling hat -Warming mitten/glove -Self rolling sleeve -Floating shoes -Motorized roller blades -Cooling roller blades These are the ideas that I came up with last week. I am typing them up so I won’t forget them. We were* supposed to think up ideas for ‘Smart Clothes’, which are exactly what they sound like. Smart Clothes. *Last week we talked about our Ideas.

11/04/2002

Idea one: How to cure cold fingers: There is a temp sensor in your mitten, right by one of your fingers. When the temp in your fingers reaches a certain amount of cold, the temp sensor tells the cricket, (by generating more electricity) to tell the motor to turn on a tiny fan inside a heating pad in your mitten. The fan spins around, and the heating pad is shook up, thus making the heat come out.* Idea two alternative: Cool off your hot head!: There is a temp sensor on your hat, very close to your head. When your temp reaches a certain heat, the temp sensor tells the cricket, ( by generating more electricity) to tell the motor to turn on a fan to cool you off. Note: the fan is positioned so as not to suck your hair up it. * the first idea might not work because of the heating pads, so the second idea is an alternative. *There could also be a heating hat. *There could also be a program where, when you are cool enough, the fan turns off.

This is a drawing of one of my ideas.

11/10/2002

Today we worked on Logo Blocks. We made a program that tells the cricket to do these things: When the light sensor gets under 180 to play three different notes. When the light sensor gets above 180 to play one different note three times. Before it plays the same note, the cricket runs a motor. All of these numbers are shown on the display. We experimented with the When, IfElse and Loop buttons on Logo Blocks.

11/18/2002

These are some fans that I made.

TODAY I GOT MY CRICKET TO DO THESE THINGS: When the temp sensor reads above 80, the motor spins. When the temp sensor reads lower then 80 it sings a little song. Today I also figured out how to make a fan.

12/09/2002

This is a picture of my computer program. my program gives the instructions to the cricket. In this case, it instructs the cricket to turn on for 30 seconds when the tempeture sensor reaches about 66 degrees F (105 degrees in cricket units), and to turn off when it cools down again.

Today I: Attached my cricket. Flipped my fan around so that you would get more air. lengthened the time span. I made it turn off when you cool down. I MADE IT SO THAT IT WORKS PERFECTLY!!!

12/16/2002

Dec 16 2002 Today I made no alterations. I made a scientific experiment. This is how I went about doing it: I walked around the school to find out if my hat-fan would really turn on when I was hot and turn off when I was cold. This is what I found out: My creation works with very drastic temp changes. It dose not work so well with gradual temp changes.

01/06/2003

This is a picture of the hat with the new support Ms.T and I put in to hold up the fan so it would not hit the brim.

Today I did these things: Me and ms.T made it so that the motor would not always come off by putting one thin brick on top of the two bricks that were sewn down. That way it could not bend. Then I stopped the fan from running into the brim of the hat by putting in a support stick so it could not flop down. Here is a movie of my finished hat,

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