Update and Happy New Year

Ok so I'm back. hope you had a good new year cause I did. The project - latest news was Monday the 15th of December. Lots to catch up on. firstly Jon (my tutor) and i discussed my project on the Tuesday ahead of our crit on the 19th of December. We all were given wee challenges to see what we came up with. my challenge was to show that i could integrate technology into a shoe and make it look good. I decided to make a light up shoe. Here's the process.

firstly i had to hollow out the heal of a shoe to put the electronics in. this was a lot harder than it seemed. i went down to the workshop to talk to Roddy (one of the technicians) and he helped me a lot. the problems we encountered were we couldn't drill right through we had to get all the meal out and there was quite a bit. staples and nails holding the shoe to the sole. We had to use Roddy's man power to remove these and my scalpel wheedling techniques then we could drill a hole.
But this meant we cut the leather making a hole. This was just fixed with contact glue at the end. so once the inners of the heal were carved out i made a wee circuit to go into the space that just lit up 6 white surface mount LEDs at once and stuck it all together.
Here's the result. the light shines through the holes in the brogue shoes. This is the stage i was at before the Crit.