Planning for Noddinggam...what I think I'm going to do...

So I've been researching how I might go about creating the headset for Noddinggam. I've done the Google thing, the Pinterest thing, and the Instructables thing and have some inspirations...

First, the headphones...after scouring the places I know to go I found several plans for 3D printed headphones. Here are some ideas I found that I really liked...

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-3D-Printed-Headphones/

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:67975

I really liked the effort and reasoning that Shannon Ley put into the design from Instructables.com. So my thought at the moment is that I will be editing that design to hold the sensors, microcontroller and Bluetooth device. But first I have to get sensors working how I want them, and prototype the functionality...

I started thinking about this project months ago and bought an arduino primo core to play with, which is cool and all, but is now retired so I can't replicate the headset, and neither could anyone else. I also ran into a problem with getting it to register a twisting motion. And it required soldering to attach wireing, which I find annoying when I'm prototyping. At least it got me that much info, but I'm going to have to use it for some one-of-a-kind thing down the road because it wasn't cheap. I'm using LilyPad and Flora sensors for sewable projects, and find them easy to prototype with. So I decided to give those a try. I'm trying out Flora and other wearables from Adafruit.com...

https://www.adafruit.com/product/659

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2487

And one or two of these...

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2020

I already have a few other items to fill the gaps like conductive thread and battery packs. So as soon as I get the new stuff from Adafruit, I'm looking forward to seeing if they do what I hope or if I'll need to revise.

If you have any thoughts or recommendations, please feel free to comment.

Cheers,

Shylo