Category: Final Project

Sound reactive disco speaker

This sound-reactive LED Bluetooth speaker is designed for someone who enjoys partying, music, and attention-grabbing on a tight budget. The beat and notes of the music will cause the LED lights to flash. The mirrored outer section functions similarly to a disco ball, saving the user from having to drill a hole in the ceiling. 

Parts, Tools, and Supplies:

  • LED Strips
  • Breadboard
  • Arduino Uno
  • Wire Cutter
  • Sound Amplifier
  • Bluetooth Speaker
  • USB A-B Cable
  • Sharp utility knife
  • Hot melt glue gun
  • Soldering iron and Solder
  • Third hand tool
  • Tweezers
  • Small needlenose plier
  • Battery pack
  • Bluetooth speaker
  • Mirror acrylic sheet

Form & Material

  • Trim the LED strips to the appropriate size to ensure they fit within the outer casing.
  • Solder each part(GND, 5V, A1) and connect them all together.
  • Solder the connected LED strips with Gemma board and sound amplifier.
  • Attach everything inside of the outer casing.
  • Place the batteries into the battery pack and verify its functionality through testing.

Instructables link: https://www.instructables.com/Haleys-Sample-Project/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0J80H7yXl5lyBAMUDXlnUuIZhlBik3v/view?usp=sharing

Kira’s Final Project-Music Light

Process&Display

https://youtu.be/6IHvlP_Th70?si=r5jXY7t73Vq3wmFO

Project Description:

The Interactive Music Light is an innovative DIY project that combines sound sensing technology with lighting effects to create a dynamic lighting experience that changes with music. Utilizing an Arduino controller and an Electret Microphone Amplifier Module MAX4466, this device captures ambient sound and adjusts the brightness of an LED light in response to the sound intensity. This unique design not only provides a dynamic visual display but also adds an interactive element to any space.

Key Features:

Sound Activation: The device captures audio signals through its built-in microphone module, responding in real-time to music and sounds in the environment.

Brightness Adjustment: The LED light’s brightness varies in accordance with the captured sound intensity, creating light effects that synchronize with the music rhythm.

Arduino Powered: Leveraging the flexibility and user-friendliness of Arduino, the system’s design is both simple and easy to implement.

3D Printed Enclosure: The device comes with a custom 3D printed treble clef enclosure, adding an artistic aesthetic and personalized style.

Applications:

The Interactive Music Light is perfect for home parties, cafes, studios, or any setting that requires a dynamic atmosphere. It’s not just an elegant lighting solution but also an educational tool that sparks interest in the convergence of technology and art.

https://www.instructables.com/Music-Light-1/

https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/8633741008481917535

Jin’s final project—Making guide

Suppilers&Tools

To make this project, I used:
Existing Clock
360 Servo SG90
Several wires for connection
Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266
LED Light Strips
Adafruit Perma-Proto 1/2
solder pen

Recuit Connection

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/k9g8BOdS1ys-sizzling-allis-vihelmo/editel

Referrance

Function Summary

Weather in NYC changed randomly. I’d like to have a CLOTH SUGGESTION BOARD to give me advise that what i should wear everyday so that i won’t wear the wrong clothes.

Time: Using existing clock’s motor
Weather: Using servo motor —four different weather method:
Cloth suggestion: LED Light—four different clothes suggetions: T-shirt, Sweatshirts，Windbreak , Down

When i push a a buttom on my clock, i can getthe current weather and temperature the info will stay 5 minues.

Moodboard

Final sketch & Model

Pollify: Real-Time, IRL Customer Feedback Device for Brick-and-Mortar Retailers [Tao Tao Final Project]

Introducing POLLIFY: An interactive, physical polling device to collect real-time customer input at brick-and-mortar retailers

Want real-time customer input on what products you should be stocking? Perfect for corner stores, restaurants, and other brick-and-mortar retail locations, Pollify provides insight on shopper preferences while making your customers feel like their opinions matter.

Pollify is an Arduino-powered product that leverages a TFT Touchscreen along with pushbuttons and LEDs. The physical form is designed to be large enough to catch customers’ attention, but small enough to be easily placed and secured in various locations around the store. We recommend placing multiple Pollify pop-ups at various locations around your store.

You can make your own Pollify pop-up by following my Instructables Tutorial.

Further notes on the physical form:

  • The physical form can contain an internal battery pack, or can be designed with an external power cord.
  • For retail locations, especially if placing away from a wall, not having to rely on plugging into a power socket can be helpful; the external power cord can also plug into an external battery pack (which can be secured in a way so as not to be stolen). This is one element that would required further R&D.
  • Additionally, the screen would benefit from being slightly larger for legibility, especially for anyone with trouble seeing up close.

Construction:

  • I built my two prototypes using foam board, and my final form with acrylic. I think acrylic suits the product well, and for overall look, the buttons should also be made of acrylic or a plastic material, rather than the clay I ultimately used. If the context were a kids store or classroom, then I would keep the clay buttons and also make the rest of the form out of clay or something that mimics its rounder texture. I adhered things together with either superglue or glue dots, which ended up being very handy for adhering pieces that I still wanted to be able to detach.
  • If I built this again, I would either (1) make an acrylic prototype and/or (2) be more vigilant (!!) about my measurements. I mis-measured the thickness of the acrylic, and this threw things off just the slightest. For designing instructions that could be exactly replicable, I would need to commit to certain specific measurements.
  • For future iterations, I would definitely need to work much further on the form and making sure it can be taken apart (for repairs, for switching the SD card, etc). The buttons in this final form aren’t easily removable (in fact, the superglue actually glued one of the buttons to itself, to the point it stopped working), which would need to be changed. It would also be great if the box pieces had grooves so that they fit snugly into each other.

Future Projections:

  • Similar to the Happy-or-Not product, I think the simplicity of Pollify could be its greatest strength. Would people use it? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe in some contexts, maybe not in others. Would the input they provided actually prove valuable to a business? Maybe, maybe not. But in an era where we’re always getting bombarded via email and web to fill out surveys and give feedback, a simple, one-question IRL device—and with a satisfying button!—could be a breath of fresh air.

Initial Product Sketches & References

TFT wiring
Bitmap testing
LED wiring
First prototype
Prototype in context
Prototype in context
Pushbutton & LED wiring
Assembly & troubleshooting
Fitting it all together
Acrylic pieces
Final assemby
Acrylic buttons
In the wild!

Yuki’s Little Printer

I find myself at discord between planning digitally vs analog. I like the the ease of thinking about my plan for the day through a digital template. At the same time, I find it a little distraction to refer to my plan digitally. My brain starts to check the other thousands of exciting screens pop ups on my phone. I like the non distracting nature and the touch of analog plans on paper. I like to strike things off that list. This made me think of a my own ‘Little Printer’. Little Printer is a small smart printer, connected to my devices through the internet. It prints me out my to-do and plan for the day every morning at 7am.

Here’s a link to my instructable : https://www.instructables.com/Yukis-Little-Printer/

Queue Meeting Facilitator

Since starting this program, it has been made abundantly obvious that if you are extroverted in public situations such as the almost daily “share-out” sessions we have, you are going to get more feedback and your ideas will be remembered more vividly. In order to solve this problem, I created Queue, the physical/digital meeting facilitator that takes the form of the cursive capital letter “Q”.

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Disco Frame

I moved to NYC 4 months ago, but I was still looking for special items to decorate my apartment. So I came up with the idea of a frame that change colors according to the volume of the music, and it fits perfect in my bar kitchen table.

Also an ideal option for partying, having dinner with friends or just playing music at home.

Instructables link:

https://www.instructables.com/Disco-Frame-That-Beats-According-to-the-Volume-of-/

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Rora_Snake snack snake

The cost of living in New York is much higher than I thought, and I realized it was time to make a plan to save money.

Snake snack snake is a money-saving lamp. First, you need to set up your goal. The percentage of the led strip lights turn up will still be according to how much they reached the goal. When the goal is achieved, the “snake” will get its “snack”, and the snack will turn on.

Instructible:https://www.instructables.com/Snake-Snack-Snake/

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Wren’s final project – Spicy Roller

I always spend a lot of time deciding what to eat since I have so many options, it’s hard to just pick one from them. Therefore, I want to design a product to decide it for me. Speaking of luck, gambling can not be overlooked, and then dice, roulette and slot machines come to mind. My first several ideas are around dice and roulette, but finally choose slot machine as the form.

Instructable: https://www.instructables.com/Spicy-Roller-Meal-Desicion-Machine/

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