Future/Primal

Future/Primal is an exploration of animalistic deimatic behaviours, cloud based interactions, and the future of fashion and its role in building and maintaining relationships.

This prototype consists of a tailored dress, a laser cut and tailored handbag, and inflatable sacs attached to the dress which can be used to ward off threats, or covey an emotional state.

A 5v relay is able to control high voltage, high amp electronics, using the Arduino. It is often utilised for home automation, but here we are using a 12v 10A li-ion battery to power a high-powered portable air compressor.

Pin 7 is used to transmit High or Low (5v) transmissions to the relay, which in turn switches the compressor On, or Off. A button can also be used in the circuit to manually actuate a High or Low signal.

For the prototype, no sensors were included in the circuit.

A quick way to include and control a 12v LED strip is to utilise a motor driver/H-bridge. These components allow you to use existing libraries, and a simple circuit, to achieve complex lighting patterns.

Here, ENA1 on the H-bridge is connected to Pin 11 on the Seeduino (this allows you to 'turn on' the circuit), and IN1 and IN2 on the H-bridge are connected to Pin 10 and 9.

Once this is all connected, assigning a value between 0 (off), and 255 (Highest) to Pin 10, will allow you to control the brightness of the LED strip.

This code allows for the Air Compressor, and LED Strip, to alternate between on and off.

#define RELAY1 7
int enA = 11;

int in1 = 10;

int in2 = 9;

void setup() {

pinMode(RELAY1, OUTPUT);

pinMode(enA, OUTPUT);

pinMode(in1, OUTPUT);

pinMode(in2, OUTPUT);

}

void loop() {

digitalWrite(RELAY1, 0);

digitalWrite(in1, HIGH);

delay(2000);

digitalWrite(RELAY1, 1);

digitalWrite(in2, LOW);

}