Week 3

I spent a lot of this week playing with my arduino kit and researching the things we might use with it.  I began compiling lists of shields that will attach to the arduino to add functioning.  I also looked up tutorials for putting together an LCD kit from Sparkfun.

In my researching, I found a pretty cool blog: Fashioning Tech.  It’s fun to go through the articles and see what interesting other people around the world have been doing with fashion and tech.  Some of the projects are really quite beautiful.  For instance, this article about lace that reads poetry is fascinating.

I think the highlight of the week was learning how to solder from Amy.  I’m going to be using it to put circuits and wiring together, but it’s one of those things that is just good to know for life.  (My dad is very excited that I can now help him with home repairs.)

My very first soldered wire.

This coming week, Michele will be back from her conferences in the UK and we will be sitting down on Monday to narrow my project down for the summer.  I’m really looking forward to hearing about everything she learned at the conferences!