Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible de Leijing Zhou

O deseño Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible de Leijing Zhou é un estimado gañador do moi prestixioso 2024 A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoría de Competición Enxeñaría de Produto e Deseño Técnico.

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Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible

de Leijing Zhou

Cliente: Zhejiang University

Gañador do A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoría Enxeñaría

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O Deseño

Sobre Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible

Openwear é un kit de ferramentas para construír prototipos electrónicos vestibles rapidamente. O kit inclúe unha placa de desenvolvemento Lilypad USB modificada, once módulos deseñados de novo e cables de conexión rápida. Cada módulo leva un chip de entrada ou saída e seis pins de 3 mm de diámetro. Os imáns de 10 mm de diámetro están fixados na parte traseira das placas, de xeito que as pezas se suxeitan á roupa mediante almofadas magnéticas en lugar de coser. Conectores en O e parafusos unen os pins. Os prototipos pódense construír, probar e reorganizar directamente sobre o tecido.

O Recoñecemento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Ferro

Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible gañou o A' Design Award de Ferro, un recoñecemento prestixioso outorgado a bos deseños que cumpren os requisitos profesionais e industriais esperados de creacións ben deseñadas. Os gañadores Ferro demostran a gran habilidade, a alta especialización, a comprensión experta e a capacidade creativa dos seus creadores. Espérase que Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible sexa unha creación moi apreciada, admirada e querida que é práctica e innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as mellores prácticas do sector e ten características técnicas competentes ligadas ao saber facer e ao talento. Openwear Kit de Prototipado Vestible é respectado pola súa minuciosidade e está deseñado para proporcionar melloras na calidade de vida que axudan a facer do mundo un lugar mellor.

Detrás do deseño

Kit de prensa

Créditos, membros do equipo e detalles técnicos proporcionados polo deseñador.

Propiedades Únicas: Openwear is a toolkit for building rapid wearable prototypes. It includes a modified Lilypad USB development board, 11 newly designed modules, and quick connecting cables. This kit facilitates rapid prototyping by enabling quick attachment and connection and allows users to directly build and test prototypes on the intended substrate like clothes.
Dimensións e Embalaxe: Development board size is ϕ50*1mm, module size is ϕ25*1mm.
Etiquetas: Hardware, Electronic, Toolkit, Wearable, E-textile
Tecnoloxía de Produción: For the modules, we have designed 11 different modules with input or output chips contained on each module. Each module has six 3mm diameter pins. For quick fixing, we fixed a 10mm diameter magnet on the bottom of the development board and modules, which works with the magnetic fixing pads to attach to clothes. For quick connects, we used O-connectors and bolts, which work well with the 3mm pin sizes on the PCB.
Reto de Deseño: The biggest challenge in the whole research was to achieve a rapid fixing and connection of the PCB. We tried a variety of methods including pins, buttons, velcro, and finally we chose to use magnets with O-connectors, which had not been used before.
Investigación: The success of the LilyPad has resulted in the creation of various development boards, such as the more compact TinyLily and the Circuit Playground with many sensors. However, these variations only modify the dimensions or integrate sensors, without modifying the Lilypad's method for constructing wearable circuits. This method presents a challenge in prototyping wearable circuits: sewing processes are time-consuming and set a high threshold for beginners. Furthermore, the troubleshooting process in wearable circuit prototyping often requires resetting and resewing. Once the development board is integrated into the fabric, the complexity of the debugging code also increases proportionally.
Inspiración: Common wearable circuits often need to be fixed using sewing, which is very cumbersome. To solve this problem, we took inspiration from magnetic buttons. We have embedded magnets in the back of the PCB to fix it using magnetic force.
Duración do Proxecto: The project started in August 2023 in Ningbo and finished in January 2024
Fluxo de Operacións: 1. Building the First Circuit Prototype: Select modules based on design requirements and assemble them on a flat surface for initial circuit testing and debugging. 2. Continuous Testing and Adjustment of the Circuit: Reconfigure module positions on the body for testing purposes. 3. Building the Final Circuit: Sew components directly onto fabric using conductive yarn or utilize sewing magnet fixing pads as an alternative method. This ensures flexibility and ease of removal.
Membros do Equipo: Leijing Zhou
Xin An
Yiqing Zhang
Yang Mao