Wearable interaction Built prototype

Zahir

Bringing movement into musical control.

Zahir is a wrist-worn motion-controller prototype. It brings a movement sensor, a small programmable board and a battery into a compact enclosure. The project explores a link between bodily movement and musical control through MIDI messages.

Format: Wearable controller
Work: Electronics, code and fabrication
Outcome: Assembled wrist prototype

Fitting the components to the body

The layered assembly places the sensor and electronics inside a shaped support, beneath a transparent shell. A wristband attaches the object to the body. The exploded drawing and disassembled prototype explain how these parts fit together.

Annotated exploded drawing separating a protective shell, sensor, battery, electronics, base and wristband. — 02The drawing separates protection, electronics, structure and attachment.Assembly drawing

Disassembled wearable with a transparent shell, internal frame, electronic boards, wires and battery. — 03The physical parts laid out before assembly.Photograph

Developing the shell

The process combines electronics experiments, programming, sketches, a printed internal structure and a formed transparent shell. The enclosure gives these technical parts a single wearable form while keeping them visible.

Blue-toned render of a transparent organic shell enclosing the wearable electronics. — 04A rendered view studies the enclosure and the visible electronics.Render

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