Skin Condidtions

For the redesign, I had to find a way of controlling the sensitivity of the connection - to do this had to vary the gap between the connections - a greater distance meant a less active sensor. To accomplish this I recalled some of my research regarding sensory effects on skin - particularly thermal response.

The effect in question is called piloerection, with the more common term of "goosebumps". When the body feels cold, it triggers the hair follicles within the skin to shift and pull the hairs into an upright condition, creating a boundary layer of warmer air at the skin surface. This also works to isolate those hairs from each other - the effect that i was looking to take advantage of...

I began to explore possible constructed developments using stepper motors through drawings...