Digital Textile - SCOPES Digital Fabrication

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Fab-Programming.1, Fab-Electronics.1, Fab-Design.1
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Studio 5
Studio 5
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In line with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Digital Youth Strategy, STUDIO 5 is mainly aimed at nurturing youth as digital learners by sharpening their 21st century learning skills, as they develop in an all-pervasive digital environment. In… Read More

Summary

This Is a 5 days Track where we are going to introduce the participant to wearable technology and the advantages provided from wearable to fashion. They will also be introduced to the basics of microcontrollers and how to code it to perform the right task.

 

Days :

1- Day 1 : Wearable Technology.

2- Day 2 : Circuit and MCU.

3- Day 3 : L & T Sensors.

4- Day 4 : Input & Output.

5- Day 5 : Project.

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Presentation Files

Micro-Bit Platform

The Instructions

Day 1 (Introduction)

In this day we will briefly introduce Wearable technology to participant in order to understand the way this technology works. They will also understand the fields this technology involved in, in order to understand the variety of applications of this technology Able to change and affect. Also participant will be introduced to Micro-Bit Platform in order to deliver the knowledge of what is MCU and how it works so they will be able to code the board to create different application.

1-As usual we will start by an Ice braking question to drive their attention to what we are going to deliver.

“Have you heard about Wearable before?”

Most of the participant hears this term for the first time, and they are not aware of this technology.

So we will briefly describe the term for them in the next section.

 

Wearable Technology

In this section we will introduce the definition of the wearable technology and for what this technology is used.

1- Firstly: We will mention what is wearable. “Devices that are comfortably worn and they are mainly used to track and monitor the user health and life style and they look nice when they are worn”

2- Then we will introduce to the participant the term “IOT” which refer to (Internet Of Things).

“This technology is known for connecting all of the available devices to the wide network in order to access them from any point on the globe in any time, mainly we are referring to sensors as they are the main data provider to any network or any device.”

3- Then we will mention the places we can find a Wearable attached to.

4- Then we will present a video to them explaining what is meant by Wearable technology.

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Fashion and Wearable

In this section we will introduce the way wearable is used with technology and the how its being integrated in the clothes without reducing the comfort of wearing the clothes. In addition we will go through some of the technology used to let this be real.

1- We will introduce the participant to the flexible fabric and how they are creating it by integrating steel flexible threads in the making process of this fabric and it will remain the elasticity of the fabric.

Video Link

2- Then we will introduce the participant to the flex circuit, where solid integrated chips are being built over flexible boards that can fit within clothes, without bothering the user wearing the clothes.

 

Micro-Bit

In this section we will introduce the participant to the Micro-Bit board and how it looks in order to understand how to code it on the Micro-Bit platform.

1- We will generally tell the participant what is meant by Micro-Bit board and show them a video that explain the component of the Micro-Bit board,

Video Link

2- Then after theoretically explain what is Micro-Bit we will move to the platform in order to understand how to code the board and also to know the available instructions we can use.

3- Then we will give a quick tour in the platform to the participant in order to understand how it works to start building the codes.

4- We will start guiding the participant to create project by pressing on New Project.

5- Then we will go through the operation of adding the codes and the meaning of the instructions.

6- Then we will go through the Instructions we can build in the platform.

7- Then we will make a little coding application to train the participant on how to use the platform.

Day 2

In this day we will recap the previous day information and we will briefly explain Circuits and microcontroller to participant.

1- As Usual we will start by recap last day knowledge and try to involve the participant in making the summery.

2- Then we will direct an ice breaking question to introduce the day topic.

QA :How is your life is going to look without electricity.

“Most of them will keep saying that electricity comes with life”

 

Electricity & Circuits

In this section we will briefly describe what is meant by electricity and circuits and introduce the participant to some application in fashion made using circuits.

1- Electricity is briefly the flow of charges from point to another.

2- Then we will mention what is circuit and how circuits are the basic of any device to ensure the power is being delivered to the loads (Bulbs, LED’s, Motors, and speakers).

3- Then we will explain the basic switching technique which is the mechanical cutting of the circuit.

4- Then we will go through some examples in fashion that are using some parts of circuits.