Earlier in the week Myles and i had a meeting with two students who are studying fashion, Claire and Michelle are looking to include interactive elements with in there final year projects. This is very exciting as this could mean that our work will get to see a cat walk and final year show.
Claire has a wonderfully creative idea to make a dress which will blossom like a rose.
Example below:
Below you able to see Claires concept drawings for the dress, Claire has been very clearer
about the invisibility of the technology which will allow this dress to come to life. This makes
our job much harder as the technology used will have to be very small. This also means their
will be less space for what ever mechanism or solution we come up with to move.
Ideas on how to make such unique wearable technology has led to Myles and my self
scratching our heads.
scratching our heads.
What we could use?
Air / Helium:
Blow the dress up using similar techniques to blowing up an inner tube in a bicycle tyre.
This would have to incorporate some type of pump or air compressor which would have to
be attached to the dress. Air compressors equal noise as well as adding much unwanted weight, so this idea is becoming much less feasible. One more thing to note is the cost, a lot of the innertubes would have to be custom made and the air compressor's cost over £200.
Mechanical / Piston / Pulley system:
Using a motorized pulley to control cables which will be stitched into the dress's petals could bethe answer we are looking for. This idea is harder to explain but theory allot easier to actually
create.
Below are some mock ups and sketches:
With these ideas well on there way, we have another meeting with Claire on Thursday 1st October to further our research and share opinions on where this project is going.
The Idea is not to look like these guys....
And these guys...
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