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Arduino Leviosa

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  Materials used: Arduino Nano 9DoF IMU Breakout DC Toy Motor 28BYJ-48 Stepper motor ULN2003 Driver 9V Battery 330 Ohm Resistor (270 recommended) 1N4004 Diode PN2222 Transistor Breadboard Solid Core Connecting Wires Thread Cardboard Duct Tape Software/Libraries used: Arduino IDE IMU Library Code Repository Brainstorming/Prototypes This project required use of an IMU (motion sensor) and some type of motor provided in our kits, either a Servo motor or a DC toy motor. Because of this, our ideas included those that could be accomplished with either type of motor and controlled with some form of motion input. The first idea we gravitated towards (in no small part for it being hilarious) was an eyebrow tracker that would recognize the movement of the user's eyebrows and replicate the expression on a constructed face with moveable eyebrows and mouth. IMUs would be attached to the user The Servo Motors would move to match the expression relayed by the IMUs The first issue we encountered wi...
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Cathatt

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Materials used: Arduino Nano Breadboard Connecting wires Alligator clips 2 Yellow LEDs PN2222 Transistor Vibrating Mini Motor Disc Steel thread (or any thread that can sense capacitance) Copper fiber strands Generic hat with fold Scrap fabric Orange/brown thread Resistors Software/Libraries used: Arduino IDE CapacitiveSensor Library Sewart64 Brainstorming/Prototypes The prompt for this project was to create a "low-tech" device that incorporates materials not traditionally associated with hardware, such as cardboard, fabric, wood, etc. This encouraged outside the box brainstorming and allowed us to explore zany ideas that we otherwise would never have the opportunity to seriously consider in academic spaces. Part of the project was to generate 20-30 ideas in a brainstorming session, where we came up with this list:      Out of this list, there were several that we dearly loved conceptually and explored more with a few basic  cardboard prototypes. The first that we lat...
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Arduino Dance Dance Revolution

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Materials used: Arduino Nano 2x Breadboard 3x Red/Green 8x8 LED Matrix Piezo Buzzer 1M ohm resistor 2x (capacitor send) 220 ohm resistor 2x (capacitor receive) Too many wires Alligator clips 2 Copper plates (can use anything that carries charge as capacitance sensors) Cardboard box to house wires/components Double-sided tape to mount components in box Software/Libraries used: Arduino IDE CapacitiveSensor Library pitches.h   Initial Inspiration/Brainstorming The initial idea for this project was a more traditional Dance Dance Revolution game, utilizing two LED matrices with up/down/left/right input indicators cascading downwards until they reach just above the player character's head (whom we've named Leddy), at which point the player would have to press the corresponding button before the next input reaches Leddy. Due to time and hardware constraints, such as an unwieldy amount of wires and a limited number of Arduino pins, we eventually settled on this simplified version: Firs...
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