the CHamEleoN

Week 13

Week 13 Finishing Line

Week 12 Big step

I can control the light ONLINE now, even from my phone! By setting up my own server with my wifi module! Yayyy!

Week 12 Lighting up the Happy Hatter

This video shows my progress in theses two days, I wired up all the LEDs and putting some of them on the hat. Played around with coding for a little bit, I was rushing because I needed to do a presentation for studio this afternoon. I did a mistake when I calculated the number of LED goes on each strip. I thought I could have 12V for each but I realised I couldn’t until I soldiered 14 of them. There are three layers on my hat in total so I am going to place 9 strips with 6 LEDs on each at the top layer, 13 strips with 7 LEDs on each strip at the middle layer, 13 strips with 12 LEDs at the bottom layer. In that case, I need to contact Textile and Design lab to get more knitted tubes. I stayed at studio late just to finish soldering everything, so I can focus on coding and assembling the hat. 

Week 12 LIGHT!

I played tested the LED strip I’ve got from ebay. I cut off 2 strip which has 12 LEDs on each of them. I got some material from standtest ( the example that comes with Neopixel library) and simply played around with the codes. The lights don’t get defused very well from the side that LED gets really close to the knitted tube. If I have more time I will fix it up if I don’t have time I will just manually flip every LED strip face down down. 

Week 11 Sh** happens 

I some some problems with the battery I ordered on the Sep 14... It’s been nearly a month and they tell me it “had been held by custom checking” and “this problem has never happened before...” 

Week 11 Time is my greatest enemy

FINALLY the LED has arrived yesterday, but it’s not with me. It’s at my place in Hamilton, which was my mistake putting down my address in Hamilton instead of Auckland. I might just my mum to mail it to me as soon as possible. 

I just the status for the battery that I ordered, it says “Arrived at PostNL – Item not allowed (X-ray) and rejected". Bad sign... I emailed the owner and asked him: what it is going to happen and when I’m possibly going to receive it. 

Week 10  Playing Test the Switch Box

I received another esp8266 that I ordered from ebay last week. I tested it out and it works perfectly.

Week 10 Emerging Practice 

As I mentioned in my post previously (see post I updated after last monday http://yuqingyo.tumblr.com/post/151003150654/week-9-emerging-practice), I’ve updated my design for prototyping because I realise there are some problems when I was doing the experiment. So the updated version has three - ll from the grandparents, the parents and girlfriend/boyfriend, actually there are six options when they voice calls and videos calls. The situations are: 1.when you are cooking in the kitchen, 2.when you are at the birthday party, 3.when you are reading book in bed and when you are having dinner with family. What I did was the physical version of an interactive video, due to the lack of time.  

Out of the people I asked, not all of them fit the situations what I set them up for. For example, I got the respond that: they don’t usually talk to their grandparents, either they passed away or they don’t have good relationship with them; most of them live with their parents so they wouldn’t know how it exactly feel when they move out and live by themselves. I also got some funny responses like “Why my girlfriend is not with me at my birthday party? Why wouldn’t I visit her?”, “Am I right at that moment when I’m about to blow the candle (that’s what the image shows), if yes then I’m not going to pick up the call.”, “It really depends on the situation, why are they ringing? Is there any emerging case?” “My grandparents usually only call me to ask where my mum is or ask me to pass the phone onto my mum so yea.” etc. 

After I rang up Cancer society, they told me that they’ve got this politics, which they can’t allow everyone to visit the patient. Then they suggested me to contact Canteen, but it’s the same thing for them too. Therefore, I just read some stories about CanTeen Patient member on their website. 

Research questions:

Does cancer kill people internally?

How do they overcome the obstacles internally? 

How do their family and friends do that?

Richard

“My name is Richard, I’m 23 years old and I’m a Patient Member from Christchurch. My life changed in 2007 when I found out I had osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. I had a primary tumour on my left knee and a secondary tumour on my spine. My first response was devastation. I realised that I had to go through treatment to get better. Family members from all over the world came to support me. They were devastated too, but we knew this was not the end, it was just the beginning. I started chemotherapy almost immediately. It lasted for about six months. I also endured two seemingly impossible surgeries richard …we knew this was not the end, it was just the beginning. on my knee and spine and radiotherapy followed after. It was extremely tough on the whole family. A year later, another tumour was found on my ribs. They had to be removed and radiotherapy started again. With a strong will to succeed, I went to study law at university – I did extremely well too. With my confidence at an all time high, I was devastated by yet another tumour to the skull in 2010. With that, treatment started again. I never gave up and I’ve been cancer free for more than two years....”[1]

Lucy

“In November 2010, my older brother James was diagnosed with renal translocation carcinoma, which is cancer of the kidney.It was really aggressive and we knew his chances of survival were slim, but on Christmas Day James started his first session of chemotherapy. Treatment was really hard on him physically and emotionally. His face swelled up from the steroids, his hair went white and he was always in hospital. He spent his 21st birthday there.The worst part was watching James lose his independence. He used to be so physically strong and bubbly and I hated how he lost that. He was always trying to smile at me, reassure me and make me feel better but I hated seeing the pain in his eyes.Eventually all the pills, medications, hospital stays and side effects became too much for James. He chose to stop his treatment in August 2011. James is the strongest person I have ever known and he decided that life was about quality, not quantity.We knew James was going to die we just didn’t know when. I was so scared and anxious about what life would be like without him. I really struggled to picture a future without James and I was worried that my family wouldn’t be able to cope. The waiting was tough. We couldn’t make plans or decisions because we didn’t know what our life would be like.On the morning of 13th November 2011, James passed away. All of a sudden my world felt a lot emptier....”[2]

From what I read about people like them, I couldn’t imagine what they’ve been through and what kind of scary experience that is. What I can do is paying more attention to them and do I can to complete my hat, hopefully it would cheer them up at least. When they are in good mood, hopefully the disease will leave them soon. 

Previous posts: http://yuqingyo.tumblr.com/post/150934843359/week-9-visiting-the-patients & http://yuqingyo.tumblr.com/post/150991268019/week-9-switch-box-laser-cutter-my-box-for-switch

Reference:

Lucy | CanTeen. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.canteen.org.nz/lucy/

I’ve updated my design for prototyping because I realise there are some problems when I was doing the experiment 

Reference (for images):

Original:

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http://sketchoholic.com/uploads/old_files/6572/BirthdayPartyFinal.jpg

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https://d30y9cdsu7xlg0.cloudfront.net/png/202103-200.png

Updated

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