Sam and Louise's Projects

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...

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...