The above picture shows a good example of the contacts before soldering. Each of the ‘S’ type shapes was were the metal contact would be pressed down normally to compelete the ciricut and create the sound. The above pictures shows how the board looks after being soldered. A wire was soldered on each side [...]
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Using the buttons on a jacket, I am going to trigger the sounds from a keyboard to play when the buttons are pressed together. When the keyboard was fully functional, a metallic contact was pressed down to complete the circuit and play the sound. For this I am going to solder some wire to either [...]
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Throught many hours and misfortne I have come to the concluion that using a zipper for a switch will not work for this project. I have been using this zipper as a sensor guide. As the author mentions in the article, the small gap between zipper tongs makes for difficult circuitry. The toy-keyboard is too [...]
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The MIDI-trigger’d pants would not be completely free of the computer, and therefore would not a truly “wearable” device. The scope of the project has now been changed, still keeping the orginal scope of a music-enabled device that you wear. I have taken apart a toy-keyboard, and I will use that to produce sound. I [...]
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