VIGOR fuses style and expertise in an avant-garde wearable

Trend isn’t nearly following present clothes and accent traits. It’s also a type of artwork and artistic expression. And like each different type of artwork, style has a spot for expertise — each within the fabrication of clothes and within the clothes themselves. Impressed by pioneers like Anouk Wipprecht and Behnaz Farahi, RaspiMari created this incredible instance of “FashionTech” artwork known as VIGOR.

VIGOR’s underlying theme is the center — each the metaphorical coronary heart and the anatomical coronary heart. Its results mirror the wearer’s cardiac operate, proudly displaying that intimate info for everybody to see. There’s in all probability one thing poetic there. However largely, it simply appears to be like actually cool.

The state of the wearer’s coronary heart comes by in quite a few methods. A spherical protruding puck on the chest “pulses” with motion created by a servo motor and kit mechanism. It additionally glows, due to a hoop of WS2812B LEDs. One other strip of LEDs on the again mimic the wearer’s heartbeat and there’s an OLED readout displaying beats per minute. Lastly, there are LED tubes becoming a member of the again piece and the chest piece. Collectively, they kind a form of vest-like garment that appears prefer it got here from a Hollywood-made sci-fi film.

The servo motor and the LEDs all function beneath the management of three Arduino Nano boards, with the work divided between them. They usually do reply to the wearer’s cardiac physiology in real-time, as one of many Arduino boards screens their coronary heart by a MAX301012 pulse sensor. 

This expertise alone can be spectacular, however RaspiMari pulled off the “style” a part of “FashionTech” as nicely. VIGOR has a number of visible attraction and pushes boundaries, doing precisely what style as an artwork kind ought to.