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When thinking about skin electronics, my first impression would be these on-skin sensors that monitor our body. But [Laura's lecture](https://vimeo.com/891546855/9513ee9157?share=copy)gave me more ideas on how skin electronics can be adapted into fashion practices such as accessories and cosmetics. I was perticularly interested in having leds on the skin.
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1. Remember to credit/reference all your images to their authors. Open source helps us create change faster together, but we all deserve recognition for what we make, design, think, develop.
## **TOOLS**
2. remember to resize and optimize all your images. You will run out of space and the more data, the more servers, the more cooling systems and energy wasted :) make a choice at every image :)
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- [Arduino IDE](http://class.textile-academy.org)
- Adafruit Gemma
- Neopixel Flora
- Conductive wires
- Multimeter
- Soldering iron
- Pliers, wire stripper
- Glue gun
- Alum crystals
- latex
- 3 x AA battery pack
??? bug "get inspired!"
Check out and research alumni pages to betetr understand how to document and get inspired
I would like to make a spine piece with crystals growing on the leds. Thanks to [Loes](https://class.textile-academy.org/2020/loes.bogers/assignments/week13/)' detailed documentation on how to grow crystals on electronics, I got very satisfactory results in one go.
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### **STEP 1**
## References & Inspiration
According to Loes' experience, glueing a piece of silk fabric on the neopixels gives pretty nice results, as well as glueing a crystal seed directly on the neopixel. So I tried both by glueing 3 pieces of silk fabric onto 3 neopixels and glueing 3 alum crystals (that I grew from the previous week) onto another 3 neopixels with a glue gun.
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### **STEP 2**
* Two images side-by-side
I made another batch of alum solution for growing more crystals with the same recipe from last week. Check out the steps [here](https://class.textile-academy.org/2024/jiawen-gong/assignments/week11/)
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Place the neopixels on the bottom of the jar, with some space in between. This way it prevents the crystals from growing on the bottom side of the board so you have a clean surface to work on later on.
**NOTE**: Don't put your neopixels in when the water is still hot because your alum will melt in hot water. I would like to quote from Loes' description to know when is a good time: "I compare it to tea: if it's nice and hot and you'd drink it. It's too hot. If it gets to the point where you think "I have to drink it now, if I wait a minure longer it will be cold" that's a good moment to put the crystal in :)"
### **STEP 4**
I left them in the solution for around 4 hours before taking them out. I was observing the crystals' growth once in a while and took them out when I was happy with their growth.
## Process and workflow
### **RESUILTS**
My hand drawn sketches are ...
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### Step
This model [^1] was obtained by..
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### Step
The laser cut nesting [^2] was created using..
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### Step
...
My hand drawn sketches are ...
Here you can see that crystals growing on the seeds and crytals growing on the silk fabric look very different. I think both are nice, so I decided to distribute them evenly on my spine piece.
This model [^1] was obtained by..
The laser cut nesting [^2] was created using..
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_Fabrication files_ are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the _fabrication files_ at the bottom of the page and simply link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using [ ^ 1 ] (without spaces, and referenced as you see at the last chapter of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page as you see for footnote nr. 2 also present in the Gallery.
## 3D Models
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This schematic [^4] was obtained by..
This tutorial [^5] was created using..
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_Fabrication files_ are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the _fabrication files_ at the bottom of the page and simply link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using [ ^ 1 ] (without spaces, and referenced as you see at the last chapter of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page as you see for footnote nr. 2 also present in the Gallery.
## Code Example
Use the three backticks to separate code.
```
// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {
// initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}
// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(1000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
