WITW Suit

Out-of-this-world fashion with function: clothing or accessories for earth or space wear!

Every space traveler – even the robotic ones – should feel? their very best during the journey, infused with the very best data and technology available. Earthlings can follow suit. Design a space data-tech-fashion wearable in the form of clothing or accessories that will collect or distribute data and technology in the following categories:

Design for Interconnectivity (staying more connected to team, community, and tools)

• enhance the work/life experience of humans and/or capabilities of robots  

Design for Health (biometrics, physical and emotional health, and/or environmental alerts)

• maintain or improve the health and well-being of the human
• provide early warning for unhealthy environmental factors (air quality, radiation, outgassing, temperature)

Design for Entertainment (sights, sounds, music, activity)

• enhance the human experience whether during work or play

We developed an environmental monitoring device that is attached to the spacesuit and a computer system that communicates with the spacesuit device. The device transmits environmental information to the computer system in real time. This information is showed at the computer system screen. Also, the computer system can send information to the device. As an application scenario, we can imagine that two astronauts are in a mission in Mars and they leave the base station in a rover to repair some machine. The Astronaut 1 stay in the rover (which has the computer system), while the Astronaut 2 go outside the rover to the repair. The Astronaut 1 can see the environmental variables of the Astronaut 1's device in real time and analyze if there are any risks. Supposing that the Astronaut 1 notices that the temperature value is decreasing very fast and probably a sand storming is coming, he can send an alert to the Astronaut 2 and the Astronaut 2 will abort the mission.

Device System:

1. SanUSB development board - SanUSB is a microcontroller board that uses a PIC 18F2550.

2. Bluetooth Device to connect at the SanUSB.

3. LDR Sensor

4. Temperature Sensor - LM35

Computer System:

1. A notebook with bluetooth.

2. Python 2.7

3. Bottle Framework

4. Twitter Bootstrap

5. Jquery