Design, Opacity and Materials

As we advance on our technological working prototype, our team is in the process of choosing the materials that will serve our design goals and our desired opacity level. After seeing a few examples by Lior, we've agreed on the following model of opacity:

In order to keep the light from spreading all over the product, and contain it in its designated area we decided to create a round silicone coat. This coat will allow the individual user to have another form of self expression besides the color of the "Clicks" itself.

Though the specific silicone type hasn't been decided yet, we came up with some simulations of the cover and the way it connects to our final product.

These designs all have a different way of ensuring the "Clicks" connects to the user's clothes. The last two have an arm with a magnet that will connect to a magnet inside the clicks. Although these are good options for attaching "Clicks" to the user's clothes, these designs are too complicated and frail. The first design has a fastener that ensures a much stronger connection, so obviously this is our chosen design.

In this simulation you can see all the parts come together:

And in reality it looks even better! As you can see in the following pictures, we have a 3D pronted model. Wev'e also experimented with a plastic mold for creating the silicone cover. this didn't turn up as well as we hoped, but we're definitely getting there. In additon we have allready connected the battery and we are in the process of reaching the desired level of opacity by experimenting with different materials.

The battery.

Broken silicone mold

Testing the opacity.