For this project I selected the words Man Ray, mismatch and mark. After researching into each of these themes separately I finally came my final theme of Tattoos. I wanted to look at Tattoos as the work from Man Ray photography looks close at the body, then ‘marks’ as tattoos are marks on the skin and ‘mismatch’ as the patterns of the tattoos are different from each other. After both work shops I found wearable technology the most interesting and that I can develop for my final design. My idea was for people that are to scared to have tattoos done or will regret or get bored of their tattoos. I wanted to use the LED lights as tattoos but with sensors so it would connect to an iPad or laptop then you can draw the tattoo that you want and it shows up on the top and then at the end of the day you can just take it off or change your tattoo to something else and you won’t have to go through any pain. 
Each circuit that we created was successful trying out different circuits using Arduino to add in coding to allow it to create different effects. I really like when you where able to change the light of the LED’s to any colour that you wanted. This really helped me when developing my final idea about whether the tattoos could have colour instead of just black ink effect. However, creating a parallel circuit allowed me to constantly add on LED lights so that there was loads of lights on one circuit which really helped when creating an image on fabric.
The lights shone perfectly through both fabrics but it didn’t work when using wired thread which I had sewn the lights on to the fabric, there was an misconnection so the lights wouldn’t turn on. So I will stick to using the original coloured wirer’s for a successful circuit which will allow me to achieve my final design.
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