Breadboard to body – how to make wearables usable
“You need a goal and a reason for making a wearable. It shouldn’t be a wearable just to be a wearable. It needs to be useful and serve a purpose.”
You will have created an electronic circuit on a breadboard to test how it functions. From this, you may have decided that it should be used in a wearable. So, why are we turning this into an electronic item we can wear? Is this an item that we need to carry with or near us, and if so, why? Is the item giving us information that we need to be current and up to date? Are there visual or auditory signals or cues that we need to pay attention to? Will this item improve something we are currently doing, or hope to do?
If you have decided that we need this to be a wearable for one of those reasons, or countless others, then you might be working through...