
250 Make: Wearable Electronics
AGENCY
Wearing a wearable-electronics project can feel empowering, stylish,
silly, irritating, or deeply embarrassing, depending on how it’s behaving. If
something suddenly goes wrong, the wearer needs to retain some agency
and control during the experience of wearing a garment without having to
struggle to take it off.
A simple way to address this is to include an on/off switch in the circuit
that the wearer can reach while wearing it. A way to level this up is to
include a small control panel for the wearer so they can recalibrate the
system, adjust the sensitivity of the sensors, or adjust the behavior of the