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SHE BON : PULSE PACK ENCLOSURE!

June 24, 2018spetku0 Comments

The PULSE PACK is a wearable computing platform that orchestrates a collection of body augments, all part of the SHE BON project. These augments are individual systems that sense and indicate when the user’s body enters an “excited” state. Each system is designed for a particular region of the human body and uses various types of sensors to detect bio-data as input, and then communicate the user’s status with electronic and mechanical devices as output. You can think of the PULSE PACK as a wearable breakout board. Its primary function is to house the master circuit board, called the “Pulse”. This heart-shaped Pulse board sends power and data over a network of cables, much like a heart pumping blood to distant organs through a series of veins. Why would I have the platform which senses and triggers the indication of my arousal be a BIG. TRANSPARENT. PULSING. HEART-DRUM?……Well… it might…

A FACE-MAKING DATE WITH MY FLOCK

April 23, 2018spetku1 Comment

This spring I’m making a series of custom masks for my four closest friends that will respond to their facial gestures by activating features on the outside surface. This project is called the “Flocking Masks” and will hopefully yield some fun summer shenanigans later this year! Any hoo… the way in which I’m making these masks reactive involves a somewhat simple capacitance circuit that exploits the properties of the materials forming the circuit. Connected to my circuit are several copper pads; one to act as ground, the other two for sensing. The charge of your body effects the charge on the pads, so the amount of skin contacting the pad relates to a degree of capacitance, and can act as a granular trigger! While this works nicely in a bread board with some red LEDs, I need to mount these pads inside of a mask and test the viability of…

[ ! ] ANNOUNCING [ ! ] : SHE BON

April 11, 2018spetku2 Comments

It’s pronounced French-like, “bone”. This should translate to “she good”… and yes, the project is very much about the imagery floating around in your mind right now. All playfulness intended, this wearable project is an exploration of female arousal. I heavily hinted at this interest in my open letter about normalizing sexual nature on Red Star last month. I think it made some people really uncomfortable- so obviously I need to publish more stuff like that. =3 The SHE BON project is a collection of wearable augments that tap into specific biological responses in order to detect an aroused state. Once triggered, a series of electronic and mechanical indicators located throughout the body will signal the wearers status to others nearby. This means that on a technical level, there are two parts to the development of the augments: sensing and indicating. Sensing is the tricky, sciencie part that will require some R&D,…