Wearable prototype

Ideation

As we moved on to use DWM1001 developement boards with an ultrawideband (UWB) transceiver module, the board needed a battery and a hull that can be carried by a visitor in order to measure their distance to an artwork.

Every third or fourth person in the crowd receives a wearable and can influence the artworks. In order to make the correlation between movement of the wearable and reaction of an artwork, the wearable is made noticeable, highly refractive and reflective. It is worn as a necklace in contrast to e.g. a wristband in order to make it closer to a preson‘s heart, enabling them to move their whole body if they wish to move the wearable.

The wearable was designed in collaboration with Tatjana.

Prototype

The first prototype consists of acrylic plastic hemisphere and 3D printed backplate that also serves as a DWM1001 board mount. One ring is used to screw the backplate to the sphere while the other is used for nylon yarn attachment. A small 850 mAh battery is located under the board mount, which is elevated 1cm from the backplate and is screwed onto 3D printed threadings with 3D printed nuts.

In order to create more complex reflections and refractions, both sphere surface and backplate are made highly glossy materials.

After handling this prototype the following conclusions were made: the rings need to be rotated 90 degrees in order to ensure battery opening is pointed upwards, the light is too bright so the hemisphere will be spray painted lightly & the hole for the rope around your neck has to be rotated 90 degrees to