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Glowing Pokémon Go Patches with EL Panels
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Sheehan, Angela Kurashima, Kent |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | Working as if they are engineering teams, students create safety products that kids would want to wear while playing Pokémon Go in the dark. They create electroluminescent (EL) patches that they adhere onto clothing, backpacks and more. They cut Pokémon character stencils out of iron-on cloth patches, add color, place over EL panels, create the circuits, and sew or adhere the glowing team symbols for wearing. Students combine art, gaming culture and engineering by fabricating light-up patches to increase youngsters’ visibility at night. The open-ended project is presented as a hypothetical design challenge: Students are engineers who have been asked by a group of parents whose children go out Pokémon hunting at night to create glowing patches that they adhere to clothing or backpacks to help vehicle drivers see the kids in the dark. Student pairs create Pokémon character stencil designs cut from iron-on fabric patches, adding transparent layers for color. Placed over an EL (electroluminescent) panel that is connected to a battery pack, the stencils create glowing designs. Each team creates a circuit, which includes lengthening the EL panel wiring to make it easier to wear. Then they sew/adhere the patches onto hoodies, messenger bags, hats, pockets or other applications they dream up. The project concludes with team presentations as if to an audience of project clients. Keep the project simple by hand cutting and ironing/sewing, or use cutting machines, laser cutters and sewing machines, if available. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Sparkfun Education Regents of The University of Colorado |
| Subject Keyword | Computer Science Science and Technology |
| Content Type | Text Video |
| Time Required | PT3H |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity Lecture cum Demonstration |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Technical Computer Science and Information Technology |
