The purpose of our hammock was to provide a portable sleeping appartus for pedestrians walking down the street. The main idea of our final project is to have a strong, sturdy hammock that is comfortable and intriguing to sit on. We were thinking about people who need a comfy place to sleep in replacement of something such as a bench.This person may also be walking home from a long day of work and needs to sit down to think for a few minutes, or have just come from an exhausting meeting and want to regain their energy before continuing. 

Benches are not good for someone to sleep on because they are not comfortable. Benches are meant for sitting, not sleeping! When you sit in a hammock, you feel comfortable and even less vulnerable. Hammocks are meant for sleeping on unlike benches.

Our hammock is made of sturdy material. As soon as we began to create the final version of our hammock we knew the material had to be this sturdy if someone wanted to comfortably sit/sleep in it. We got strong fabric (almost a smooth burlapy material) and measured out the dimensions of the hammock we wanted. We cut the fabric to this size and for extra strength, we doubled the fabric. To do this I placed one sheet on top of another, pinned and sewed it.

We decided we wanted this hammock to have a little something extra to it because it seemed extremely mainstream. In our process we talked about adding a pressure or flex sensor so that when someone sits in the hammock an LED strip lights up, causing someone to be more interested in sitting in the hammock. This light will make it more exciting for people to use the hammock outside at night as well. You cannot see the LED strip light up that well during the day, however, it looks really cool at night. This light and sensor involves coding meaning it involves an Arduino board and battery.

We could not just leave these hanging out of the chair so while we sewed the two sheets together, we left a pocket open. When we turned the sheets rightside out (we sewed them inside out so the stitches would be neat on the outside), the pocket was easily hidden so we could put in the board and battery. The hammock easily folds up so one may carry it on their back or even a backpack/tote bag.

Now that the hammcok itself was done, we wanted to include more "pizazz" in addition to our LED strip. Our main word for this hammock was "intriguing", so we thought, "what is intriguing?". When people see text or words, they are more inclined to the object so we decided we wanted our hammock to say, "sit" all over. Using Rhino and the laser cutter, I created a stencil of this word and spray painted it all over the hammock on both sides. This made it look super jazzy. We went out to test our final hammock and were glad to conclude that it filled all our wishes.