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Rui Yang-Electronic “Wooden Fish”

Wooden fish is often used in rituals usually involving the recitation of sutras, or Buddhist texts. Merit-making is important to Buddhist practice, and it is a beneficial and protective force which accumulates as a result of good deeds, acts, or thoughts. People can earn merit through beating the wooden fish.
This project is a fish-shaped electronic “wooden fish” made of acrylic panels. It needs a seven-segment display, and an Adafruit Audio FX Sound Board connected up to the Feather Huzzah ESP8266 wifi board. The top of the wooden fish will display my merit count. I can remotely beat the electronic “wooden fish” whenever I realize I have done something wrong, such as evading fares.

Circuit Diagram

Link to my Instructible account : Electronic “Wooden Fish” : 5 Steps – Instructables

Electronic Wooden Fish

This project is a fish-shaped electronic wooden fish made of acrylic panels. The top of the wooden fish will show the number of times I tap it. Also, the number of taps and the sound of tapping are controlled by my phone. Whenever I realize that I have done something wrong, I can remotely tap the electronic wooden fish with my phone to accumulate merits.

Description for my project video: The video will consist of several scenes. The first scene is when I watch a video about subway fare evaders. During the second scene, I begin to think about how to avoid fares. The third scene is me sneaking to the subway station to try to avoid fares. And background music, the sound of wooden fish, fades in. The fourth scene is when I realize that this act is a mistake, so I pick up my phone to “tap the wooden fish”. The final scene is when the wooden fish in my room starts to sound and counts the number of times I have tapped it.

Link the Google docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1076TR5m13znQNARt3jW91j-RiYkOgTGRD3CFweDOvzE/edit?usp=sharing

Link the Instructables: Ryang18’s Activity – Instructables

Rui-IoT intro exercises and final project ideas

IoT exercise

Final Project Ideas

Hungry cat alarm: Since I worry about my cat if he didn’t have food on time, I will make a cat feeding alarm clock. I’ll laser cut a furious cat on a board, and install led lightbulbs on the board. The eyes of the furious cat turn red when it’s time to feed my cat. After feeding the stomach of the furious cat will be glowing orange warm light.
Thirty-day tracker : This project’s purpose is to keep track of whether I’ve managed to do each of the following three things every day for 30 days: enjoy one thing, eat at home, and get to bed on time. microcontroller board
Electronic Wooden Fish: Wooden fish often used in rituals usually involving the recitation of sutras, mantras, or other Buddhist texts. Sometimes, I occasionally make poor decisions or chuckle at hell jokes. What I will do is earn merit in the hopes that Buddha will forgive me. By using a touch to strike the Electronic Wooden Fish on the board. How many times I hit it will be recorded in the upper right corner. I want to make this board compact so I can carry it around in my pocket. If the touch counting function is not feasible, I will substitute a button for it. Another way is that I will 3D print a Wooden Fish and put a sound chip inside. When I tap the digital Wooden Fish on my phone, the 3D printed Wooden Fish will make a sound.

Hairy eyes creature

Halloween Costumes

The completed project:

This is a character I made up: a creature with hairy eyes. Since it’s face looks too scary, Halloween is the greatest day to go out, and no one will be scared by it’s face. The reason I made it because the mask, which I got from the show,” Sleep no More”, the New York City production of an immersive work of theatre. The entire theater setting was dark when I was exploring the performance, and I was filled with a sense of unease similar to Cthulhu. I learned how to adjust the circuitry on hard surface like plastic, which is hard, I had to solder back and forth because of the position of the NeoPixel Sticks on the eyebrows. If I were to redo it, I would replace the fabric strips with a relatively stiffer material, making it more resemble an octopus’ legs, so that they have the feeling of rushing out of the eyes.

Materials list:

GEMMA M0 (Adafruit)
2 NeoPixel Sticks (Adafruit)
Ninjaflex filament (Adafruit)
500Ah lipoly battery and chargerNeedle and thread (Adafruit)
Cloth (Previous School)
Embroidery thread (Blick)
Wool fabric (Etsy)

Circuit diagram

Arduino code

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/btDyw6ObZk6-funky-bojo-fulffy/editel

In-progress images/sketches

Hairy eyes creature in Progress

This is a character I made up: a creature with hairy eyes. Since it’s face looks too scary, Halloween is the greatest day to go out, and no one will be scared by it’s face. Its emotions are concealed by its mask, therefore it uses its colored eyebrows to show kindness.

Photos of the progress

Link to my Tinkercad circuit:

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/btDyw6ObZk6-funky-bojo-fulffy/editel

Materials list:

GEMMA M0
2 NeoPixel Sticks
Ninjaflex filament
500Ah lipoly battery and chargerNeedle and thread
Soldering tools and supplies
scissors
Cloth
Embroidery thread
Cultivated Silk
Wool

I will keep decorating the hair of my character, and working on the NeoPixel Sticks lights to complete the whole work.

Rui_Glowing mask with hairy eyes

I decided to put the wool material on the eyes of the mask and stick two NeoPixel Sticks eyebrows and covered them with cloth. Let the colored light come through under the cloth.

The materials I need:
GEMMA v1
2 NeoPixel Sticks
Ninjaflex filament in translucent
Coin battery
Needle and thread
Soldering tools and supplies
Cloth
Embroidery thread
Cultivated Silk
Wool

NeoPixels and Halloween kickoff

NeoPixel circuit

Tinkercad Circuit

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/2ArBRLzTxL0

Sketches for Halloween costume ideas

My idea is to add two NeoPixel NeoPixel Jewels to the mask, and add some fabric under the mask as decoration.
Shopping lists:
Two NeoPixel Jewels
Adafruit GEMMA or GEMMA M0 microcontroller
Silicone coated stranded wire
Soldering tools and supplies
Various fabrics
Cloth
Tape/glue
19awg galvanized steel wire
Scissors

2. The second idea is to add colored eyebrows to the mask, using 2 NeoPixel Sticks. Perhaps 2 NeoPixel Sticks could be wrapped from the arch bone to the cheekbone.
Shopping lists:
Ninjaflex filament in white, translucent, or glow-in-the-dark
2 NeoPixel Sticks
The GEMMA M0
500Ah lipoly battery and charger
Silicone coated wire in three colors
Soldering tools and supplies
Tape/glue
Cloth
Scissors

3. The third idea is to put decorative fabric under the mask and hide the led lights inside, just like the jellyfish earrings I made.
Shopping lists:
LED sequins
Battery pack
Various fabrics
Cloth
Tape/glue
Scissors

Luminous Jellyfish

Plush Night Light

This is a luminous jellyfish earring that can be used at parties and music festivals. Wearing jellyfish earrings can be noticed in the dark. For instance, it’s easy for people to get lost at raves, so if you and your companions were separated by the crowd, the luminous jellyfish earrings can help you and your friends to find each other.

Embroidery thread
Heat transfer foil
Cultivated Silk
Wool

I had originally intended to dye the cloth to resemble a jellyfish’s tentacles, but I later changed my mind and decided to use wool fabrics for the tentacles. I have used a sewing machine a year ago but I wasted a lot of thread. Thus, I made the decision to sew my plushy by hand. I discovered that it was difficult to hand-seal the fabric’s edges, so I tried a few various stitches until I finally kept the polyester inside of the plushy.