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{"id":915,"date":"2017-04-11T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/?p=580"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:22:13","slug":"e-textiles-light-sensor-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/e-textiles-light-sensor-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"E-textiles light sensor experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered lots of e-textiles bits a few weeks ago and have been testing them to see how they work. I started with a battery holder with a built in light sensor which turns the leds on when the light level drops. I tried stitching a parallel circuit following a shape from my visual research to see if I could work out how to do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_3381-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-577\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_3381-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_3382-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-578\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_3382-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter I had completed the circuit and checked that it was working I attached clear tubes to the leds so I could test a design idea I had. I wanted to see if the light would travel down the tubes and create a fibre optic look. The tubing is quite stiff and difficult to work with so I will need to find something that is more flexible but for the technical testing it worked ok. I tested the idea in a dark room and these were the results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_3380-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-579\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_3380-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The light does travel a bit but not as much as I had expected. I do however like the appearance of it with a subtle glow down the tube. The stitching of the conductive thread has come loose from being handled a lot so this is something I will need to address for the final design. I will also use more flexible tubing and smaller pieces as they are quite long due to it's lack of flexibility. 1 battery will light 5 leds as shown so this will need to be considered in the final design. I will be looking at using 2 batteries to power 10 leds and I'm hoping 2 sensors would react the same to the varying light levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered lots of e-textiles bits a few weeks ago and have been testing them to see how they work. I started with a battery holder with a built in light sensor which turns the leds on when the light level drops. I tried stitching a parallel circuit following a shape from my visual research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,49,53,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayleighmace.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}