01x07 - High-Tech Fashion

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[ducks quacking]

Hey Iz, what's up?

What in the--huh?!

Yeah, hi. I'm doing my first triathlon.

I'm worried I'm going to be the last one

to cross the finish line, so I thought maybe I could wear

my swimming, biking, and running outfits at the same time.

You know, save on changing time?

[Jake laughs]

[chuckles] Yeah, swimming in my bike helmet

might not be the best way to go.

You look pretty silly.

Why are you doing this anyway?

It's a fund-raiser to save the domestic mallard.

Domestic mallards? You mean ducks?

They're not going extinct.

There's like of them right there.

Jake, when it comes to saving the animals of our planet,

you can never be too proactive.

Oh, there has to be something I can do

that'll help me make it across the finish line.

Well, what if you made one suit that you could wear for

all events that didn't look, you know, [laughs] like that?

Hey, that's a great idea, Jake!

Hmm, but I'm going to need some help.

I need... [both] the SciGirls!

[Izzie breathes heavily]

Ha-ha! I'm a racin' machine!

Hm! Um-hum.

Nope.

Ah-ha!

Clothes with tech gadgets inside.

That's exactly what I need!

SciGirls, I'm runnin' your way!

Oh my god, it's an hour before the party!

[SciGirls] There are definitely a lot of people

coming to see what we've done.

We're freaking out!

It's always last minute in fashion. I'm scared!

We're so fashionably late it's unfashionable.

Oh no, are people leaving?

We'd like to apologize for the delay.

Whoo! Fabulous!

Come on out, Hallie.

Work it, girl. Whoo!

Oh, beautiful. You gotta work those pompons.

I'm Hallie, my theory on fashion is you should just

be yourself and use fashion to express yourself.

Her original poncho.MMade this.

[Hallie] We just dress up in crazy outfits

and even sometimes stuff that we make.

Ariella, that's nice. Strike a pose.

My name's Ariella, I live in New York City,

and I'm years old.

Sofia, you can come out.

Oh fabulous!

My name is Sofia, I'm years old.

I really think that even though you should always be yourself,

trying different stuff in fashion isn't changing you,

it's adding on to your personality.

I was walking home from school one day,

and I was like, I want an outfit like that, so I drew it.

This is a ridiculous scarf.

This is like, my all-time favorite.

We decided to brainstorm an idea for our absolute favorite dress.

Puffy sleeves. Pink and black, right?

Should I go crazy? .Yes.Yes.

I like the ruffles.

We should make it light up.

Or iPod speakers.Yeah.

We also wanted to make it completely outrageous

in other ways like adding LED lights all over the ruffles.

And I think we should put a cape.Yes!

Superhero Princess.

I always wanted to be a superhero.

Well, that is super heroine.

Today we sketched a dress,

and it had a lot of cool elements in it

like really puffy sleeves that we thought

maybe you could incorporate some technology into.

It also had a huge skirt.

This kinda reminds me of this book I want to show you guys.

Oh I want to see it! It's called "Fashion Geek."

You know my love with geeks.

Clothing, accessories, tech.

I love like, the flower in her hair.

It's like, headphones.

The bag lights up when your phone rings.

They're little LED lights.

It showed a lot of ways to incorporate

technology into fashion like using LED lights.

This is pretty cool because after it shows you what it is

it tells you how to make it.

We could totally make this. Yeah.

I wonder if there's like, a bio.

The author's name is Diana Eng, "A fashion designer

who specializes in technology, math, and science."

She was on season of "Project Runway." I know who she is.

Yeah. I love "Project Runway."

It's like, one of our favorite shows.

Do you want to see if we can email her?Sure!

We said that we really liked what she did, and we were

thinking about trying to make some of her ideas,

and if she had any advice for us.

Send.

I have to go to drama camp now.

Are we going to a show today? [Ariella] Yeah.

Oh my gosh, break a leg. Bye!

We'll call you later. Yeah.

Then we made a project page and answered a bunch of questions,

and we did some quizzes too, which is cool.

We're opposite!

Only because I didn't want to dissect that animal.

Oh, we got an email. She emailed us back.

This is so cool!

"I'm definitely willing to pass on some advice.

Actually, I could use some help too.

I'm working on a new project for girls like you

and would love some feedback. Maybe you guys

could come by my studio space and lend me a hand."

Oh my gosh! That's so cool!

Tomorrow we're going to go meet with her and help her

with her new project, which is really exciting.

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We brought the sketch that we did yesterday.

And see what Diana has to say,

if she wants to give us feedback.

I was really excited to meet Diana.

I'm Diana.Hi. Hi.

We were looking at your book,

and it seems really interesting and cool.

I am having a launch party for a new project that I'm working on

called Fairytale Fashion in days, and I was wondering

if you could help me make the garment for a model to wear

that will be displayed in a small fashion presentation.

Yes! Definitely!

[Izzie] Whoo-hoo! This sounds exciting!

Fairytale Fashion is a new project

I'm working on with girls,

and I'm asking them to imagine

that they're fashion designers in a fairytale.

I was kind of into programming when I was .

I guess I've always been into technology

because I used to do a lot of science fair when I was little.

Hopefully, I can teach them that there are all sorts

of neat things that are involved in technology or science.

As well as she helping us with a project,

we're helping her with a project.

I heard you had been thinking of some ideas yesterday.

We were thinking kind of like Princess Superhero type thing.

Yeah! We can do some brainstorming

and think of ideas for the technology.

We told her our ideas, and we had this big brainstorm.

We can kind of play around with some LEDs,

and LEDs are light emitting diodes,

and they basically just light up.

This is a breadboard.

[Izzie] Not for bread I take it.

[Diana] We use it for prototyping electronics,

and we can kind of try playing with the LEDs

and seeing how they light up,

and what different colors they are.

On the LEDs, there's a positive side and a negative side.

The longer lead is positive, and the shorter lead is negative,

so you want to connect

the longer lead to the positive side of the battery

and the shorter lead to the negative side of the battery.

The LEDs use different voltages.

So I have this resistor set up over here so that the ones

that need less electricity won't burn out

if we plug it in straight to the battery.

You can have fabric laying over the LEDs, and it will

diffuse the light and create different effects.

Oh, that's so cool!

That reminds me of a roller coaster.

Then we can maybe do some of the glittery effect.

So this is something, could be used as a cover.

It's amazing.Yeah.

Tell me a little bit about the theme.

You were saying Superhero Princess.

Princesses and Superheroes are things

that like, girls everywhere would like, love to be.

A lot of times when you think about princesses,

they're really like, dependent on a prince.

To add the Superhero element,

it shows you that she can fight evil on her own.

Yeah, I think this is a really interesting combination.

So we're going to go fabric shopping in a little bit.

Do you guys want to think about

what sort of fabrics we should look at?

For the ruffles, we might want lace.

What should we do with the cape?

We can maybe make something

that's like, really drapey in the back.

Do you want to do some sketches,

kind of try and think about it?

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[Diana] A lot of times what we do in fashion is draw one figure,

and then we trace over and draw all of our different designs

on the ones that we traced over

so that they'll all be posing in the same way.

Our first one, we're thinking about

having a cape that is in strips.

Should we have the ruffles done here?

[Hallie] I think we should do it more on the lower part

because it would tie it in with the cape a little bit.

You guys have lots of sewing ahead of you.

Should we bring this with us to the fabric store

so that we can test the fabrics over it?

[Hallie] I think that's a good idea.

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I like that one, I think it's really neat.

Yes. I think I like this one more.

I don't like the color.

[Diana] Should we grab a bunch then hold it up over the LED cylinder?

Boy, that's a lot of fabric!

You can make a lot of clothes with this stuff!

Right now we're trying to see

which fabric makes the colors more prominent.

This one is pretty see-through.

The light shines through better.

I do like this one.

Just looks like the fabric is lighting up.

I think we should get this one, this opaque one, and then...

I really like Sofia and Hallie they seem really bright,

and I really enjoyed experimenting with them

to look at the different fabrics

and see what works best with the LEDs.

You guys want to meet up tomorrow?

Okay. Sure.Okay, I'll see you guys

Okay, bye. Bye.at the workspace.

♪ ♪

Oh hey, Diana. Hey Diana.

Today we got to meet with the model, and take her measurements.

Waist-- /.

inches.

We also looked at some inflatable skirts.

This is just like a pump

you would use when you're camping to inflate mattresses.

What is the skirt made out of?

It's made out of plastic tablecloths.

That's what I thought it was.

Yeah, it's really easy because you just melt them

together with an iron, and it seals them.

Just slip it on?

A plastic tablecloth?

Before the picnic, right?

I would definitely love the inflation to be in the sleeves.

We also looked at an EL wire coat.

The EL wire changes patterns based on how much she's moving.

It has a special driver in it,

and the driver has an accelerometer.

And so the accelerometer senses when she's moving

and creates a sparkling pattern.

Do we shut this off and try to touch the other EL wire?

Sure.

Great. Maybe we could use some of this on the cape.

We could do like, hot pink EL wires.

Especially because we have the little trends on the cape.

Why don't you work on the designs.

Right now we're working on redesigning our dress

using the LEDs and the EL wire and even some inflatables.

So what do we want to keep from this design,

and what do we want to change?

I think we're just kind of adding on to it

more so than completely changing it.

[Hallie] In this design we left out the puffy sleeves,

so I think we should draw them back on.

[Izzie] Puffy sleeves, swimming--yeah!

The puffy sleeves were something

that we definitely wanted in the initial design.

I think the cape part should change when she moves.

It might be a little too much with the LEDs?

I think that maybe we just need the shirt.

Like, just without the LEDs?

Yes. I think this dress is going to look great.

[Diana] Girls, let's see what you have.

We put back in the idea of the inflatable sleeves.

We put them back on because we wanted to use inflatables,

and we thought that that would be a good place.

Do you want to kind of think about

where else we could put inflatables and make sure

we're putting it in the best possible place?

The reason we put 'em on the puffy sleeves

was because we wanted puffy sleeves,

so that would be the best thing we thought to have them.

Oh, okay.

We really could try like,

where else we could put the inflatable.

I don't really know how to shape it.

The only thing though is that the cape is there.

Hm. Right. It's kind of like we have to choose one or the other.

Well, I think the cape because that brings

the whole kinda...That's true.

I was a little bummed out,

but then when I sort of saw how they wouldn't work,

then I thought it was a good decision.

Then maybe could we do the inflatables somewhere else?

Maybe you can use them under the ruffles and the skirt.

The ruffles could be hanging like this, and then they can...

Go up. Yeah. That'd be cool.

So do you want to redo our sketch?

What are we going to do with the cape?

We were saying we would put the EL wire as trim at the bottom.

So we can actually sew the EL wire right into the edge.

We can just put the fabric like this, stitch it right in.

For each different type of technology,

there's a lot of ways to trigger them.

So we have the LEDs. This'll be a switch.

Then the cape will be motion activated.

[Diana] I think that today we can maybe either

make the inflatable part or do the LEDs.

I think we should do the LEDs right now. Yeah. LEDs?

Here we have an Arduino microcontroller.

[Izzie] "Arduino microcontroller." Wonder what this is?

[Diana] We are going to use it to make the LEDs light up and twinkle.

The way a microcontroller works is,

you program it on the computer,

and then send the program to the microcontroller,

and we're going to be able to control on the computer

how long the different LEDs are lit up.

So we're telling it to basically turn the LEDs on,

and then turn them off.

So let's make these blink really quickly then.

It's loading. Now, it's running the program.

[SciGirls] Oh that's so cool!

Computers are so smart.

[all laugh]

We used the computer to program in

what LEDs we wanted to light up when.

Oh, that's really cool!That's awesome.

It's like Broadway lights.

That was really cool because it sort of showed us

how it would look on the dress a little bit.

How do the lights go into the dress?

So we're going to sew the LEDs

into the dress with a conductive thread.

[Hallie] Conductive thread has metal in it, so when we sew it

into the leads of the LED, it makes a connection.

So do you want to finalize our prototype so that we can

figure out how many rows we want to have,

then we can figure out the blinking pattern too?

I think on the front of the dress we should have

like, or rows. then for the cape, I don't really know

how many strips are going to be on the cape.

We could just kind of hold up the measuring tape?

So we're going to have strips.

Our longest strip is going to be inches.

You know, you guys, we only have days now until the event.

A little bit freaking out about the time limit

because we have to hand-sew all the LEDs.

Tomorrow I'll be at the camp that I have, so I'll miss

a lot of the day, but as soon as I come,

I'm going to put ,% into what I'm doing.

Hi, I'm Sofia, and I'm gonna show you what else I like to do.

Hi, that's me. Hi.

In addition to fashion, I'm really into architecture.

I love designing buildings.

This is how I feel I can make the most difference,

by becoming an architect.

I love reading. I have a bunch of books.

I even have books in the kitchen. See?

That's my mom.

There's all my stuffed animals.

Bye!

♪ ♪

Today we're going to sketch out the pattern for the LEDs

so we see how we want to connect them to the Arduino

and how we want them to look on the dress.

I think I heard somewhere that this is called parallel.

It's sort of the same thing we did on the breadboard.

A parallel connection is when all the positive sides are

connected together and all the negative sides are together.

Hey girls, I picked up some lace for us for the ruffle.

I love this lace! Ooh. It's pretty!

Ooh, look at that lace! Very princessey.

Do you want to see the design we have for whole thing.

Yeah! What we'll do, instead of connecting this

to the coin cell battery it'll be connected

to that microcontroller we had yesterday.

Oh, okay.

That's what will make it blink.

That will be enough to power it too?Um-hum!

How many LEDs do you think you'll have in each row?

[Hallie] We have in rows, times is .

So do you want to make them inches apart?

Your circuit looks really good for putting these in parallel.

The only thing is, you have to make sure the positive

and negative sides never touch, because if you do, you'll make

a short-circuit, and it'll heat up and get really hot.

I guess we should get started because we only have

days now, and there's a whole bunch of things to do.

We're about to start sewing in the LEDs,

and we're going to do the positive side first

and then the negative side.

Ariella is going to twist each side of the LEDs, and she's

also going to cut them so that we know which side is which.

It might be a little bit hard because the lace is not that wide.

We don't want to have the positive and the negative thread

on any of the rows touching each other.

But in order to not run into that problem,

we're going to find a path to sew along.

I think I'm at a pretty good stopping point.

Me too. So do you want to start working on the inflatable?

[Sofia] We worked with the inflatable for the first time,

which was really different from what I had expected.

[Diana] Why don't I show you how to make the air bladders.

You're going to put it between these pieces of fabric

so that it doesn't get stuck to the iron.

Press the iron on it for seconds, then we can

hook it to an inflator and see what it looks like.

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♪ !

[whirring]

We haven't really gotten that much done today

as we had a whole day, so...

Tomorrow we'll just pound through.Yeah.

Bye. Bye.

Hello, this is Ariella.

Here is my desk.

It is currently a mess, as it is usually.

I love bracelets.

Here is my collection of Ty's.

I can show you guys my new mattress routine.

So that's me and my good friend at the end of the show.

Those are the awesome curtains

that make the room pink. I love that.

That's all I wanted to say for now.

I hope you liked my pink room.

[Hallie] So we have a lot to do today.

This lace is a lot of work.

Sofia's not here, we only have people,

and Diana at least is working on the cape.

I'm a little stressed out

because we have a lot of work to do.

Maybe before we finish this row we should test it out.

We can put the negative thread here.

Is it lighting up?

No.

Oh my gosh, really? Really.

Let's do it again, maybe we're short-circuiting it.

They were working before. Why is it doing this?

We're testing the negative and positive threads,

and we're trying to light up the lights,

but they're not lighting up.

So it's really frustrating

because we've been working really hard on this,

and for them to not light up, it's just like...

Do you think I should just keep sewing them in?

The only problem is that if it's not the battery.True.

I'm gonna go ask Diana

before we continue sewing the lace, just in case?

Hey Diana.

Oh, you're sewing the cape.

Yeah, I'm putting the EL wire into it.

It looks so well with the ribbon.

Me and Hallie were having a little bit of trouble with the LEDs.

We got one to light up, but we put in two,

and we don't know why one of them is not lighting up.

Sometimes even though there are the clear ones,

they are different colors, and they still need

different voltages depending on the color.

Really?Yeah.

Well, I can find out which colors we put in.Okay.

Hey Hallie.Hey.

So what did Diana say?

Well, she said that it could probably be the volts.

What I'm going to do is,

I'm going to take this bulb out and put another green one in.

Do you want to get started on the inflatable?

♪ ♪

[Izzie] Wow! They seem awfully calm.

They haven't even figured this out yet.

♪ ♪

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[Hallie] Yes! They're all lighting up.

Did you do it? Yeah, they all work.

I'm feeling really relieved that I actually figured out

how to fix it, and I'm also really proud of myself

for figuring that out.

What happened is that the brighter one

has different voltage than the other tubes.

So we went through all the LEDs, I replaced a bunch of the LEDs

with ones that have the same voltage.

I'm really excited that we figured out the problem,

but I'm also still kind of stressed about time.

Hey girls.

I've been working on the inflatable skirt.

Okay, that's good. Maybe we can hide this

like this over here, scrunch it up in the back.

In the back part, it has these little points. Is that okay?

Um, I don't know, it looks a little weird.

Instead of having it as a big rectangle,

do you want to make one that's like a big tube,

then we'll just fold those up so the points won't be there?

She came over, and she suggested the tube,

then she showed me how, and I realized it wasn't that hard.

Ariella, I finished the lace. [Ariella] Really?!

Yeah, do you want to see it all lit up?

Well, it all lights up.

That's like a miracle. Yea!

It seems like we have every piece of the dress.

We just need to put them together.

[Izzie] I think it's time to meet Hallie.

I'm Hallie, and this is my little sister Zadie.

That's my mother and my father. Aren't they cute?

This is my room.

Those are all my stuffed animals and dolls and stuff.

That would be Moxie.

Hello!

This is my wall of inspiration,

and these are a bunch of my books.

Say hello to the fishy.

That's my creepy doll head. So.

[Ariella] Today I'm feeling really excited

because today is the party!

I have friends coming, my family is coming, and I even

heard that the press is going to be there, which is crazy!

We are getting the model ready to go out.

And it's really exciting.

Oh my gosh, we're supposed to be out there in minutes.

There is definitely a lot of people out there.

It kind of sounds like a semi-big crowd.

It's very exciting though

that people are coming to see what we've done.

First of all, we'd like to apologize for the delay.

We had to sew some things on, and we thought it would be

appropriate to be "fashionably" late.

[laughter]

We've been making this garment

that uses technology and fashion together.

Without further ado, our garment...

♪ ♪

When we first created it,

we had a basic theme of Princess Superhero.

We think that some of the aspects

are more princess and some are more Superhero.

The technology really brings out both of those.

As you can see, it's an inflatable skirt.

The lights on the skirt, they're hooked up to an Arduino,

which is like a mini computer.

We have what we call EL, or E-L wire.

Diana worked on "Project Runway."

She did fashion with technology.

She was our mentor through all of this,

so could we have a round of applause for her please?

[loud cheers & applause]

I hope that you guys enjoy our party

and have fun looking at our Fairytale Fashion creations.

I love the lights!

I think it's absolutely adorable.

I love that it blows up..

It all works really well together.

Of course, I would wear it!

I think all the stress was worth it

because it just looks amazing in the end.

We didn't even get to see the whole thing today.

This is our opening too.

I like the designing, and I like seeing it all come together.

Wow, I really took that from paper to real life!

I think this was a really successful launching

being that there were so many young girls in the audience.

Thank you so much for everything!

I think our dress is really

the perfect dress for a Superhero Princess.

Definitely. It's kind of sad that's it over

because the whole process was so great,

but I'm really excited that everybody's seeing the dress

and everybody's loving it.

Yea!

[all laugh]

SciGirls fashionistas.

[camera shutter click]

Nice.

[laughs] Yup, it's fully loaded.

Floaties.

Sweet.

Aerodynamic wings to cut wind drag during the bike ride,

which will remind people what we're riding for. [ducks quack]

Well, the ducks seem to like it.

Oh, and here's the best part of the whole outfit.

Wait for it.

Ha-ha! Ta-dah!

When people honk, it'll motivate me to run faster.

Hey, what's up with the ducks? [ducks quack]

[laughs] They're quacking!

I think they like your outfit

and saving the mallards, I mean ducks.

Yeah, well, it looks like I'm gonna have

some company on my race.

Let's mosey on along little fellas.

Good luck, Iz!

Between your high-tech gear and your duckie cheering squad,

you're gonna ace this race.

Yes siree! Come on ducks!

[ducks quack]