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Making Sound-Reactive Clothing
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Foxbot, Jen Kurashima, Kent Schill, Sabina Sharpe, Rachel |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | Students create their own light-up safety outfits using EL wire—a luminescent wire that stays cool. Students combine microcontrollers, sensors and the light-up wire with a SparkFun sound detector and EL sequencer circuit board to flash the wire sewn to clothing for pedestrian safety near roadways. Students apply sound-activated light-up EL wire to create personalized light-up clothing outfits. During the project, students become familiar with the components, code and logic to complete circuits and employ their imaginations to real-world applications of technology. Acting as if they are engineers, students are challenged to incorporate electroluminescent wire to regular clothing to make attention-getting safety clothing for joggers and cyclists. Luminescent EL wire stays cool, making it ideal to sew into wearable projects. They use the SparkFun sound detector and the EL sequencer circuit board to flash the EL wire to the rhythm of ambient sound, such as music, clapping, talking—or roadway traffic sounds! The combination of sensors, microcontrollers and EL wire enables a wide range of feedback and control options. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Sparkfun Education Regents of The University of Colorado |
| Subject Keyword | Computer Science Physics Science and Technology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT3H |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Physics Structure of the Earth Technical Computer Science and Information Technology |
