for our first mini project, i wanted to reuse a lilypad arduino and conductive thread i had from an old costume.
my hope was to create a piece of dynamic clothing--a garment that changed form (well, lit up) in response to some sort of external stimuli.
conceptually, i decided to tackle my fear of/extreme distaste at the idea of having organs. after considering and rejecting several possible organs to illuminate on my body, i settled on a pair of light-up lungs.
although i had a couple different ideas of how to trigger LEDs on inhalation, time constraints forced me to scale back. i reversed the original idea--instead of a shirt that lit up when i breathed, i would breathe when my shirt lit up. i envisioned a sort of meditation aid/biofeedback device.