For my final project, I still want to work on the coil speaker which I’ve tried in my last project but it didn’t work out eventually. I want to fix the speaker in this project and make it bigger. The material of the speaker is cooper metal sheet. I want to laser cut the shape of the speaker to make it looks more exquisite. I use six coils in a speaker instead of one coil, because I want it has louder sound through the speaker without using the amplifier. I will still add the LED lights on the pants in order to make the pants look more abounding and have interaction with music. This time I decide to arrange the lights in order instead of spreading around on the garment. Same as last project, the lights will light up responding to the music which comes out through the coil speaker. And I want to fix the code which makes the lights to shine three times after the sensor receives higher volume, I want them shine one time when every time the sensor receives the high volume. I want to create a pants that you can wear every day, and you dance whenever and wherever you want with a speaker which allow you carry music all around on your own pants. It can be visual compelling and functional.
Material:
Speaker: cooper metal steet
LED Lights
Electret Microphone
Wires
Arduino board
garment
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| This is the coil speaker. |
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| Pattern of the LED lights, and the position I want to place the lights and speaker.
Questions:
1. I would like to know how everyone think of my concept of having a lighting garment which responds to the music.
2. Should I put the device on the pants or on the shirt? And do I need add more elements on this project? Or take out some elements?
3. Is the interaction between the speaker and the lights strong enough?
4. Any other advise!
Yu Wei Chiang
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1) I think having your lights respond to sound is a great idea. It is very unique. In my experience with LEDs and garments, I found it difficult to sew the pins to the cloth (you might have, too!). I might suggest buying LED strips. They might be a little bit easier to work with when it comes to sewing them in. This is what I'm talking about: http://www.effled.com/images/Auto%20light%20strip%203.jpg
3) One of the important components of this project I saw was how the lights interact to sound. I would focus on making the speaker to be very sensitive, so that even little claps could set off the lights. I think that will help your display!
1. Totally awesome idea! Keep going with it.
2. I think the elements you have are just right! There are a lot of them, though – I'm sure no one would mind if you took some off!
3. I wouldn't make the lights *too* reactive to sound. If it responded to everything, people might think the lights just go off by themselves, and not by sound!
1) This is a cool idea to have lights also respond to music. It just needs to be constructed to work on command in order for it to work well.
2) One idea is to include a shirt and pants. One could respond to low volume levels while another could respond to high volume music. I also think it's enough elements to make it a dynamic piece.
3) The speakers and the lights is interesting and having the right sensitivity to the sound levels is important to get it to react correctly the way you want it to.
2) I think connecting the LED's to create an image throughout both of the pants and shirt will be a cool affect. Combing the two garments can create a larger and more detailed image.
this looks like it will be a very visually dynamic and well crafted work!
I'm wondering if you need that many speakers (ie, the 6 coils) and if it matters that they all be identical? Perhaps some of the coils could be small, tighter, or shorter and that would give a slightly different bent to the sound?