10/07/2002
This is a picture of the reading hat. |
Today I hope to draw my ideas, then share my ideas and my drawings with the class. I also hope to start working on a cricket today. Some of my ideas are:
A belt with a cricket in front to reel in the belt to hold up the pants
A cricket that will roll up your sleeves
A cricket that will fold your socks
A cricket that will help you put on a hat
A mitten that will pull itself up
I also want to accomplish all of these ideas.
A hat, with a light for reading. |
10/28/2002
|
These are some of my ideas I have for my smart clothes project:
1. A sensor that goes on your clothes that will tell you how fast you’re going.
2. A motorized belt that will hold your pants up.
3. A sensor that will turn on a light bulb for reading, to clip on your hat. |
11/11/2002
| The reading hat is going to be made so that when the sensor hits the number 11, the light on my hat will turn on. The number 11 is the value of a light sensor in a dark room. To find this number, I took a book, a cricket, a light sensor and a display into a dark room. The cricket was programmed to tell the display how dark the room is by displaying the light sensor’s value. I found the value of the light sensor at the point when I couldn’t read anymore. This turned out to be 11. The sensor will be on the side of the hat, and the light bulb would be on the front of the hat under the visor part. I want to put the light sensor on the side of the hat, because if it was on the visor with the light, the light sensor would measure the light on the visor, instead of the light from the room.
|
|
11/11/2002
This is the procedure that I used for my reading hat. |
Today I learned that the light sensor won’t work unless you have “Loop”. “Loop” means to keep repeating the procedure over and over in “Logo Blocks”. We also discovered that you can make a beeping sound by making a “Note”. When you make a “Note”, the top number has to be at least higher than 60. We tried to use “If”, and other orange words, but they didn’t work. “Loop”, “If”, and “Note” are all blocks. A block is a command for the cricket to do.
After we learned what to start with, we thought of a body to fit the procedure, and for the body, we had to come up with more blocks to fit the procedure. Leah wanted the cricket to only beep once. We worked on that for about a half hour. At the end, the T.A. taught us how to make the the cricket beep, even in the light. In the light it made a certain type of beep, and in the dark it made another type of beep. The sensor told the cricket how dark it was, and the cricket told the display to display the numbers for how dark it was.
|
11/18/2002
| Today I learned that my procedures need to have a light, sensor, and a cricket. My cricket is going to turn the light on when the number of how dark it is hits 11, because that’s how dark it is when I can’t read. We had to use different crickets, because one gives information, and one receives it. |
This is something similar to my reading hat |
12/09/2002
| December 9, 2002
Today, I had to continue to make my hat. I finished making it, but I have to attach the cricket, sensor, and lights next week. Today, I painted and finished taping the brim on. Next week, I should be finished with every thing. I plan to attach the light and sensor by taping it to the brim. I plan to attach the cricket by velcro-ing it to the top of the baseball cap. |
This is a drawing of what my hat looks like now that it is done. |
01/06/2003
This is a photo of what my hat looks like now that it's done.
|
Today I attached my lights, sensor, and cricket. I attached them with white electrical tape. We were going to attach the cricket with velcro, but we didn’t have any at the time. Then we tested the hat to see if it worked. The hat’s lights did turn on during the experiment in the dark, and it wasn’t too bright for my eyes. I knew that it wasn’t too bright, because I read something, and my eyes weren’t sore. When I stepped into the light, the light turned off like it was supposed to. After that, we took pictures of me with the hat in the light and in the dark. Next I drew a picture of what my hat looks like now. Lastly we scanned my sketch to put on the web site.
You can watch a movie of my finished hat. |
|
