Context

The idea for this project came from a wearable project created in Physical Computing a couple of years ago called "The Burn Band" that increased its temperature anytime the hashtag #FeelTheBurn was used on Twitter. Their project focused on Bernie Sanders during his rise to political fame but with our project, we capitalized on the attention being paid to politics during Trump's first 100 days. Our device reflects a sentiment analysis on Bernie Sanders as well as other well known like Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Cory Booker. 

When we found that the electronics were too bulky for the wearable format we researched similar projects and learned about the Cryoscope that allows you to touch the weather by heating or cooling a metal slab corresponding to a forecast of tomorrow’s temperature We then created a similar interface and casing to it. We also wanted to give the PoliTherm a form factor that allowed it to fade into the periphery of view after entering a room, so we decided to add a hook that allowed it to be hung on a wall.