Responsibilities:
My main roles in this project were working on the design, fabrication, and hardware integration of the wearable device. Our team collaborated together to create the world that the speculative design is situated in, as well as the core functions of Somnus. From there, my teammate Xinyi and I worked closely to conduct explorations in materiality and form, ultimately determining the use of a bevel soldering tip and parchment paper to weld the plastic PEVA sheets into an inflatable design. From there, I fabricated multiple iterations of the wearable, honing the 2D pattern until I was finally satisfied with the 3D form. Then, I collaborated with Xiaobai, who took the lead on programming the hardware, to integrate the components seamlessly into the wearable.
Team:
Effie Jia
Xinyi Zhu
Titus Ebbecke
Xiaobai Ji
Tools:
Arduino
Adobe CC
Hardware
Soldering
Skills:
Programming
Electronics
Soft Robotics
Rapid prototyping