User:Truongdat120891/enes100/illuminate clothing

Link to project T2C team page.

Give instructor top 3 project choice list

 * illuminate clothes
 * water jet
 * helicopter

Write problem statement
Make a program for the arduino to control all the LED, switch, and battery.

Assign Task1
Try to figure out a way to talk to the LED, and make the computer recognize the arduino.

Compare actual work done to Task1
For now, i can control the LED to follow the timing i want, and i can connect it to the battery and make the LED work just the way i want.

Week1 Narrative
I can connect the arduino by using the DEV design specially for LilyPad only. Then using a program name arduino 0022 to receive and sending code to the arduino. By using C-language i can tell the arduino to control the LED, switch, and battery .... but some problem occur. If there are just 2~6 lED, the LED will light up very strong. But when the number of LED increase, the lED will light up very weak. With just a weak electricity, it wont be able to light up a bunch of LED at the same time, but when i increase the electricity it will kill the arduino. Also, there is a limit of LED i can control.

Assign Task2
I am trying to find a way to surpass the number of LED i can control, and increase the electricity but it won't kill the lilypad

Compare actual work done to Task2
i can build a soft circuit, the led work fine using the thread instead of using alligator clip. Even though the soft circuit is pretty small, but it work beautiful.

Week2 Narrative
When i build the soft circuit for the first time, the led wasn't working, the code was fine, the arduino was fine, and there is no problem with the electricity. So i check the thread, but i can't find anything wrong with it. After a while, i found out the led wasn't working because the wire from (+) and (-) was sticking together, then after separate them, the led was working perfectly. Also because of the coin cell battery was too weak it only can light up the led on top of the arduino only. So i need to find a new source of electricity.

Assign Task3
i will find out the problem is the battery or coding. Also, as soon as the design is ready, i will make a program for the real circuit.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Everything is working fine now. The battery seem to be fine,and there is a switch on it so we can use it as the switch to turn it on and off. Some of the led isn't working, (around 2, or 3 of them), but everything is now ready.

Week3 Narrative
I try to used the decoder to control all the led, but after a while i realize that it will be a bunch of wire go back and forward on the dress, and it is pretty complicated. so when i made this circuit i didn't decided to use the decoder yet. Also i leave out the lilypad button switch because there is already a switch on the battery, and we can used it instead of adding another switch into the circuit. Video of lilypad sync with the music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd-NKjGLbVo photo of the new circuit with more leds

Assign Task4
on the final week. I will wait for the final dress and fix the pattern of the led for the last time, after it's done.

Compare actual work done to Task4
I can make the button switch working now. The project has been improved a lot since the beginning.

Week4 Narrative
I had wrote a program for the lilypad. After a lot of trial, I think this program will make the pattern in the led most beautiful. the circuit is now completed. The program is also completed, i just waited for the dress and then load the program in the lily pad. This is the program i have for lilypad