December 16, 2004
Update
This is the journal for Alison Lewis's Masters Thesis at Parsons School of Design. This journal ended in May 2004 upon graduation from Parsons. The main page link for this project site is located at
http://www.alisonlewis.com/projects/closer/.
Please refer to this link for up to date information; however, feel free to browse this journal for inspiration, research, or fun.
To know more about me and my other projects please visit www.alisonlewis.com.
"Linking Abstract Ideas to Real World Concepts"
PDF Artical found on CiteSeer which introduces how to discuss and talk about the vague and abstract notions of Ambient technologies as it relates to funding.
They specifically focus on a voice activated MP3 player embedded into a jacket.
"Ambient Intelligence Visions and Achievements: Linking Abstract Ideas to
Real-World Concepts"
Menno Lindwer, Diana Marculescu, Twan Basten, Rainer Zimmermann, Radu Marculescu, Stefan Jung, Eugenio Cantatore
June 01, 2004
Issues
I have all the components in the garments and reading... The mp3 player just doesn't have the response time I am looking for.
Its last minute, but thinking about changing back to using sin wave and timing chip.... instead.. because its immediate
the Blue garment is working great thus far, very nice. I am concerned about the LEDs though, they are soldered to very thin wire which can break easily if I an not careful...
Need better connections to LEDs.
May 27, 2004
C Code Examples
//serial output test – send a message through the MAX232 into a terminal window – hyper //terminal or the terminal window in MbasicPro will work.
C Code for Feely, the touch to light pullover.
May 25, 2004
Press + Cards
Have business cards ready to print.