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What Makes You Shine?
What Makes You Shine?
This activity introduces simple circuits using Chibitronics LED light stickers. You will express something special about yourself by making a personal light-up design with copper tape, LEDs and paper. If you have time explore some of the websites for more ideas on how electronics are used in art and design.
Stitching Storage
Stitching Storage
In this activity, you will be creating a felt book to store your needles. This will give you some sewing practice before its time to start sewing with conductive thread. The template provided has a few different stitches that are useful for what you will come across in the future projects. At minimum, you should have a book with the snaps sewn in. If you don’t finish decorating during the session you can store it in a Ziplock bag and work on it during another session.
Brilliant Bracelet
Brilliant Bracelet
In this activity you will create a simple e-cuff using basic LilyPad components (LEDs and battery holder), conductive thread and snaps. You will create a simple circuit with the snaps of the bracelet acting as a switch. When the bracelet is worn, the LEDs will light up.
Flashy Fashion
Flashy Fashion
In this activity, you will learn about the pre-programmed LilyMini Protosnap board through active inquiry and investigation. Take notes of your observations in your design journal on what each piece in the LilyMini is capable of. Take a picture of this table and upload it as evidence of your learning.
Now that you have discovered what the LilyMini is capable of, you will brainstorm and sketch out an idea to embellish a pre-existing garment, accessory, or a felt panel which can be attached to a garment or accessory. You will then use paper prototyping to create a diagram of your design.
Now is the fun part: making your designs a reality! You will embellish a garment or accessory with your circuit. It can be helpful to plan out your design with chalk or a washable fabric pen on the garment before you begin sewing. Check out the linked guide from Sparkfun for some more tips and tricks!
LilyPad101
LilyPad101
Now that we have learned how to use some basic LilyPad components, you are going to step it up a notch and discover the LilyPad Protosnap Plus. You'll be using this board for your makeathon projects but first you'll need to get oriented.
Advanced Arduino
Advanced Arduino
Check out the tutorials and example videos linked below for more options you have with the Lilypad ProtoSnap Plus board and to get ideas for your makeathon project.
Setting Up the Board with Arduino
Setting Up the Board with Arduino
ArduinoSetUp.mp4Blink the pair of yellow LEDs attached to sew tab A5 on the LilyPad USB Plus.
Create primary and secondary colors on the built in RGB LED. In this activity you'll use digitalWrite to turn the three LEDs on and off in various combinations to create eight primary and secondary colors.
Expand your color options using analogWrite and the RGB (Red Green Blue) LED. In this activity you'll use analogWrite to control the brightness of the three LEDs. In the example you'll create a rainbow of tertiary colors by adding a 50% brightness option.
Use for-loops to smoothly vary the brightness of LEDs. In this activity you'll see how to program the computer to do the work of changing the brightness of an LED vs you having to do it manually.
In this activity you will learn how to play musical notes through the buzzer on the LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus by mapping musical notes to their frequencies.
In this activity explore digital input and program flow control using the button and switch.
This activity shows how you can use analog input with the light sensor.
In this activity you will see how to program an array and explore the six built in LEDs on the Lilypad Protosnap Plus.
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