10/30/2023
Although I’d like to incorporate a more involved/complicated circuit into this weekly, I’m not the most well-versed in electronics, so my vision is to build a simpler circuit that hides as much of the electronics in my pocket as possible. And since I haven’t experimented with double weave before, I think I’ll stick to using the example lift plan for this assignment just so that I can better understand how it happens. It would also be nice to get some practice time on the Baby Wolf since I’ve only used it for a brief moment in class.
The first handful of picks were rough, and I was very confused because…where was my pocket?? I wasn’t trying to do anything fancy — just follow the example (how hard could it be?) — but it was looking nothing like it was supposed to. Even my tabby looked really off?
This is…not right, lol.
I realized that, at first, I wasn’t following the correct lift plan for double weave, and then, upon realizing that, I was following the correct lift plan, but backwards. 🙃
Once I remembered how to read, and my swatch was looking more like the drawdown, I was trying to locate the pocket. It wasn’t as obvious as I was expecting! The pocket didn’t make itself easily accessible with any rows of the lift plan, so I had to dig a little (and this helped me to understand how double weave works, like which rows correspond to which layer), but eventually I found it and was able to stick my scissors in there! Exciting!! (I did not cut the warp!!)
My plan was just to weave in a resistor and LED and stick those in the pocket somehow, so that’s where I started. After figuring out how to get into the pocket, I attached a 470Ω resistor to some silicone-coated wire and placed it in there to hide it. Following that, I attached the anode of the LED to the resistor using more wire and stuck that into the pocket, too, so that just the bulb would poke out of the fabric. I initially wanted to use one of the LilyPad LEDs, but it didn’t seem to want to turn on for me :(
This was impossible to photograph, but the resistor did make it into the pocket!
