Working Huzzah!
Final Project Ideas:
I’m thinking about utilizing capacitive touch yarn to create some sort of action when walking in the door
Project Idea #2:
Wake up out of bed and touch the rug to turn off the alarm? Start the coffee?
Idea #3:
A timer for the rug that measures how long you’ve been sitting at your desk and prompts you to move/ get up after a set time to take a break
Idea #1: Synesthesia
Alarm or wall clock/mirror/object that changes the music/vibe/color of the room based on the weather outside
Idea #2: Quirky, Interactive Lamp
Idea#3: An interesting API project
Idea 1: God from Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a soldered stained glass mural, with glowing components and sound bites from the movie that are motion activated.
Idea 2: Lunisolar Calendar in the form of planetary models. Three led orbs will travel in their relative positions from each other to represent the time of year.
Idea 3: Similar to the second idea, except instead of orbs, it will be shadows across a projected sun to keep track of the time of year on a lunisolar calendar.
Final Project Ideas :
Light up LED Dancing Speaker:
This is a LED Speaker that dances with the rhythm of music. The unique feature of this speaker is it suggests music based off your mood.
Affirmations :
Board that displays daily affirmations or motivations based off mood.
Productivity tracker and Timer:
Portable Task Tracker and Timer.
Video:
Idea 1: Deck of cards as a habit tracker (acrylic light)
https://www.jungleerummy.com/blog/did-you-know/how-playing-cards-are-related-to-the-calendar-months
Idea 2: Light up disco ball reacting to music beats/ aura light
Idea 3: Moon phases calendar
Idea 4: Moon light linked to weather app that changes color according to day/time/weather etc.
Idea 5: Scrolling text light?
I would love to have changing lights/colors and use acrylic and infinity mirrors for this project.
Vani, Brydon and I were focusing on finishing up the Arduino code this week. The materials we are using are:
Vani and I will be using the NeoPixel mini buttons for our masks and our weapons and hence, have programmed 2 different codes.
Since we received our NeoPixel mini buttons yesterday, we were not able to code exactly for the mini buttons. Instead, we wrote down the code for the eyes and the weapons for a NeoPixel strip since we will only need to make minor changes on the code for our NeoPixel buttons.
For the weapons, the lights will change between blue and white for me and between yellow and white for Vani’s.
The purpose of the Khonshu costume is to have a really cool staff that lights up upon staff-falls while walking. Everything else is completely secondary. For this week Brydon has been mostly working on his code, he didn’t get it quite on tinkercad yet but he hopes to have it done today and finish soldering the circuit by tomorrow, seeing as its a relatively straightforward circuit.
For Halloween, I am making a paper doll costume. It’ll make look part of my childhood play dream and for Halloween I wanted to have a very handmade costume feel. In my 5th grade specially, me along with my friends, really enjoyed making our own paper doll clothes that we would draw cut out. I even painted a shoebox and turned it into a closet for these paper outfits.
Now, I am excited to have lights that serve as its fancy edges. It’s also going to be my first time making a Halloween Costume and being part of a parade.
For the lights I chose :
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3636
What’s special about the Neo pixel strip is that it you can wrap it around the edges but it still glows in the front. It will have rainbow colors. Operate with a buttoned circuit with light movements like that of a bicycle light.
To make my costume I will also be using the following supplies :
Also, after speaking with Becky and considering it’s Halloween and we will be out for a long time, I decided on two things :
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.
part2
Use the infinity mirror component to represent the rocket on power armor
inspiration
Process of making an infinity mirror
For my final costume, I have decided to dress up as a pop art character. Here are few pictures for references.
