I'm creating a series of wearable tech for use throughout my body, which will sense and indicate different aspects of my physical status!  While my personal reason for developing this technology is intimate in nature, the system I'm creating could easily serve a number of purposes in other contexts as well.

• if you have ever wanted to create a wearable device that senses information from your body
• wish to create a wearable that expresses something about your immediate state
• have a need to network multiple unique wearable projects together
• would like to visualize data received from sensors imbedded in devices you've made

...then SHE BON might help!

I'm going through lengths to document my progress on the development of this platform, so that it can serve someone else as just that: a platform from which you can build upon for a countless number or reasons.

THE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE

The "PULSE PACK": a wearable breakout board "brain" used for networking other wearables!

the "POPgirl": a status indicator worn on the arm with a screen interface that visualizes the data received from the devices plugged into the PULSE PACK.

You could think of the two as computer tower, and computer monitor:

The idea is that you can plug up to (9) devices into the ports along the outside of the PULSE PACK. The devices communicate with the brain circuit board inside, which I just call the "pulse".  

While I chose to make a heart-shaped backpack as the enclosure for the brain board, you could do something entirely different all together (and just incase you DO want to make a heart-shaped backpack, the instructions on how to do so can be found on the Pulse Pack Instruction page!)

The POPgirl reports a visualization of the data received by the "pulse" brain:

Similarly, I chose to make my user interface mount onto my arm- but I encourage you to use the same guts in whatever form factor you like. If you do want to build a wearable arm-mounted enclosure, I'm working on compiling some visual instructions for that too (right now in fact!).

Very soon, I hope to have instructions for the following documented:

• How to interface things you've made to the main brain, the "Pulse" board
• How to build an enclosure for the brain
• How to build the display user interface
• How to hook something up to the display user interface

Right now, I'm currently working on getting the UI up and running. I'm also trying to finish up a proper enclosure to cram everything into :3

ALSO, since only three wearable systems exist so far (for the nips, pelvis, and thighs), I'm going to create a bank of potentiometers to act as a stand-ins for the rest of my sensor values. This way, when I demo the system in use at SuperCON next month, there won't be any empty ports on the backpack.

This means... if you twist one of the knobs on my "stand-in bank", it will act as a sensor and change the input value on the screen of the POPgirl. 

Here is a taste of what I've been developing this week...

I'm busy printing all the pieces, and taking the pictures... so I can make good instructions for the enclosure build <3

...and Mark (my code hobbit) is working on the Java application that will run on the Raspberry Pi screen thing I picked up from adafruit. Here are the graphics I'm currently designing for the UI:

more to come soon <3