Write about the big ideas behind your project?
- Create a simple circuit interaction associated with a game character
What are the goals?
- Integrating the techniques of soft circuits and needle felting learned from this micro course
Why did you make it?
- I am very inspired by the game monument valley
What are your motivations?
- Explore interactive soft circuits
Outline your approach to the project? What ideas did you generate and how did you refine or reject them? What did you research and explore? what were the design choices? What challenges were encountered and how did you resolve them?
At first I thought of creating the crow in monument valley because I wanted to have a crown hover above its head. After consulting with Jen, I found that to make it stand above the crow may risk short circuiting if I wasn't careful to separate the positive and negative legs of the led. I ended up going with Ida, the main character of the game because she was a little simpler to make. Either way, in the game, whenever Ida or a crow reaches a destination point, something glows from within the character's hat and it releases into the sky. I wanted to portray that wonder and mystery using an led and a removable felt hat.
Reflect on the process of making this project. What did you learn? What would you do differently?
For my next iteration, I will try to hide how the circuit actually works (hiding the conductive thread, open cube etc.) and make it easier to place the cube onto the switches so the led lights up. Overall, I learned a lot about the basics of combining needle felt and soft circuits. I hope to build upon these skills for more complex projects and successfully create cohesive projects that use lots of different soft fab techniques / materials.
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Special thanks to Jen, Kate, and Susan for these super educational and fun workshops :) 3 weeks ago I didn't even know how to thread a needle!
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