Breakfast Reminder

In our busy lives, we tend to skip our meals especially breakfast. So here is an interesting solution to your problem,it is known as breakfast timer/reminder. It will help you in keepig up with your meals.

Circuit playground

Conductive thread

Conductive tape

LEDs (I have used blue and red)

Battery pack and 3 AAA batteries

Needle, embroidery thread of various colors

Felts (one for the base of the project and multiple colored for food components cut outs

Scissors

Fabric glue

1. Develop the code using https://makecode.adafruit.com/

You can go through the code I developed.

2. Save the code and download it in your computer.

3. Connect the Circuit playground with your computer using the cable.

4. Drag the code to the folder which pops up on connecting the circuit playground.

5. Choose your felt color. I chose yellow color, as it pretty bright color for human eyes.

6. Cut it out in the desired shape.

1. Identify the food components you want to have on your product.

2. I chose beverages and some solid food components like fruits and cereal bowl.

3. Choose the color of the felt for each component you chose.

4. Download the image of the food components from the internet. Open Cricut cutter (I used it in our makerspace lab).

5. Open the software on the connected computer.

6. Upload the image you downloaded and place the felt on the sticky sheet for the cut outs.

7. Make sure the felt is properly secured. For the safe side I also used tape to secure it better.

8. Make sure the right blade is connected to the appliance.

9. The software gives you the option to adjust the position and size of the images. I used the size range from 0.8" to 1.2" depending upon the shape and size of the element.

10. Run the program, cut out the desired shapes of desired sizes.

1. After the cut outs, code development, the next step is connect all the elements of the project together.

2. The next crucial step is the sewing part.

3. Before starting the sewing I like to position everything on the felt cut out and see how is it going to look like, will the keys on the circuit playground overlap while sewing using conductive thread or not.

4. Start sewing using conductive thread, from LEDs to the ciruit keys. I tried keeping the stitches as invisible as possible. I made all the stitches in between the fel layers, so it is visible on the back side but not the front side.

5. Make sure to conenct the positive terminal of the LED to the key(say A1) on the cicuit and the negative to the GND(ground) ond the circuit.

6. As I am using conductive tape as a switch in my product, I connected conductive tape to another key(say A2) on the circuit. In this way, I can operate the conductive tape as the interactive switches.

7. Once all the sewing is complete, stick the conductive tape on the appropriate position.

8. Connect the cirucit playground with the battery pack with AAA batteries in it. Check if it is working well without any errors.

9. Once the check is done, start sticking the food components cut outs using fabric glue. In this product, I sticked the beverages components on the right, in which I included a milk bottle and a mug, on the other side, I had some fruits, cereal bowl. And I also used some common cut outs at the bottom symbolizing breakfast as a whole.

10. As the LEDs were underneath the felt, I made a small opening for the LEDs, so it can be bright enough when the ccircuit is on.