Hardware

Final Response

Well I was kind of upset about this project because I thought it was well done, but at the last minute the thing ups and dies on me. I will post the finish product later. Everyone seemed to think the thing was a vibrating chair, but it wasn't. All the suggestions were things I had though of and resolved but everyone could not experience them because for some reason the project died.
Note to Katerie** It worked that morning and the day before.! Just saying, sorry i'm just really upset.
weeeeelllllllllllll whatever......
All in all its been a great semester see ya next semster God willing! :)

I really enjoyed Dragon and Obi's piece it was well done and crafted, anya's piece made me laugh, and i'd like to have one of carlotta and elexis' dogs, and emilie and miriams work was well resolved as well!

Final Project Process: Final idea.

Taking the idea of the vibe boards i was thinking of at first making the same thing but on a simpler scale of just one sensor as you entered the house it would set off the vibe board to the possible rhythm of a heart beat. With the help of Dragan the idea was proposed to have the vibe boards connect to a house hold object like a chari, lamp, fridge, cabinets, carpet, ceiling etc. I wet with the chair. I was initially messing around with a push button system to set the vibe boards off then, i went to a range finder, then the idea came up from either Dragan or I of RFIDS. This is what lead t the current idea of having a chair or other house hold object that was loyal to only one person; its owner. The idea of using a waveshield to communicate the idea further came up, so I tried to use both the boards and the wave shield.

The concept is:
Chair that is loyal only to its owner.

Object:
chair the razzes anyone who doesnt have the right RFID: not the owner.
when the right RFID is scanned the chair starts to beat like a heart and begins to play reminiscient sounds that the owner would make while sitting on the chair from the squeaks of the chair itself to him/ her coughing, yawing, and snoring.

The vibe boards are places at sensitive physical locations on the body symbolizing the sensitive nature of the chair and the person.

Technology:
1 Arduino
2 RFID
1 WaveShield
10 "Lily Pad" Vibe Board

The Home stretch:

Put strings on RFID's and hang the on wall for classmates to grab.

double sided tape on RFID's and RFID tags so they sit on the readers.

Safety pins to attach vibe boards to furniture (chair).

Materials:

double-sided tape
string/ twine
push pins
safety pins
electric tape *so vibe boards wont short out on safety pins
speakers (WaveShield)
extension cord
battery pack (waveshield)

*tape breadboard together so pins dont come out.

Final Project Process: 5

Well my idea kind of changed. I was thinking, what if i use vibe boards instead? The thermal imaging thing looks like its gonna take some time and effort I do not have.

Current idea: vibe board security system.
simple idea: when some one walk to a location in the room the vibe board for that location goes off. The vibe boards are on a grid system on the other side of the room. I was thinking of a system of twelve vibe boards.

Final Project Process: 4

Group project idea:
when mass sensors are tripped they send messages to people phones.
-trip a sensor and it send messages to your phone of what you are doing. Messages are send via wifi to facebook or twitter.
-messages sent by scanning qr code upon intry into the house.

QR link to fb or twitter subscribe links.

Sensors:
infrared led's
pressure
vibration sensors
buttons
mic

structure:
sensors are everywhere, conspicuous or inconspicuous.
side are with code to scan.

Final Project Process: 3

Process web: Privacy

some of the nodes are 

heat-light-pure-innocence

heat-refiner-cold-dark-warm-brightt-blue-green

heat-control

notes at the bottum:

invert colors (top of page)

people in the space create life in smaler home

-create life when life isnt present

-take miniature homes with you.

stars in space merge with infrred images

you cant experience the house unless another person turns it on.

notes on side:

ghost: moving heat detection

breathing the heat

open door diplays sensor closed door does't

heat on wall, door, person, object.

Final Project Process: 2

Thermal imaging ideation:
heat as life insideof a house
read everything as heat (hot or cold)
video surveillance
associate the temp reading to other things, people, inanimate object, ideas, etc.
showing heat of people o door with LEDs

infrared thermometer
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9570

videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMB_6bZSB1o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-6b2pCTJsw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTZ0l0vfvE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcTKVOzxCmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmeON5GbXw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC63vWy5F58

Final Project Process: 1

I have been thinking about an idea I made as a suggestion during the discussion of the first group projects. The idea was making an led body suit that lit up according to your body temperature. The idea of infrared thermal imaging seemed really interesting to me.

group project response

Some of the feedback we got from this project was to be more specific with the direction of the project. Some people said it was successful in that in itself it had a certain meaning to it but it wasn't nessecarily the meaing we were intending.
Some possible improvements questions and suggestions were:
time code audio
what was the purpose of the monotone voice
keyboard sounds
and why the casing for the device.

we did like the idea of the keyboard and the time code recording to add to the device.
the answer to the monotone voice is that we wanted to keep it neutral asif  the info was being read on screen.

Proposed project extension idea:
people input pulse information via pulse sensor and/ or record their own audio as confessions etc and send data via wifi + date and time information.

possibly done through processing and arduino a laptop of course.
we would send out the infor mation to multiple people with the same head phone and vibe board *possibbly fitted with other sensors that create physical sensations* setup and people would hear each others confessions based on proximity their pulse etc (biometrics.). this is the extended version we would not necessarily do all these things at once.

Adafruit motor shield

Dc drive

Servo control

So this is the us robotics motor controller. It can be used for driving dc motors, servos and stepper motors. There are 4 input pins and upto 6 wire controlled outputs. There is also external power that must be connected to function. The inputs are A and B plus minus. This allows you to either use a pwm signal to control the movement or send a constant signal to have steady drive and the polarity is determined by which input receives a signal.

Stepper drive, forward, rev, and high speed! Give constant high to both a and b makes it run fast! Did not know that until I tried. 

piezo

Pot led array

LED Matrix

LCD only

LCD screen

After fighting with the beast for 30 min I realized that the screen's breakout board was soldered poorly.

Vibe board

Problems with vibe board: the vide board works well for slow stop and go to get a beat, but when you try to increase the frequency of the pulses it just seems to continue to spin. I tried to reverse the polarity of the motor to try to stop it before began again.

Heart rate monitor

The heart rate monitor is very cumbersome to use. It has to pass a light through your body to get the rate.

Project one notes

Project Response

The response was interesting to the project. I did not know how people would respond to the audio with it being my voice and the awkwardness of the sound bites. It seemed people were reponsive to both the sound and heart beat. To the heart beat people seemed to be weirded out and with the sound it seemed as though they were entertained and it also brought about some questioning.
The comments we recieved were that the monotone  voice and the pulse worked together notwithstanding it did not neccessarily work with the intended concept. The packaging of the case recieved mixed reviews but it was interesting to see how people interected with it, holding it as if it was a delicate object. That may have worked in conjunction with the heart beat it is=t made sense considering the container was a soft jewlery bag.

Touch Screen VICTORY (33,34,35)

Making sure the LCD screen works.

Making sure the touch screen responds.

Pressing... getting the "phone keypad" to work.

AT LAST! LED lights up in all the colors of the RGB rainbow! Which is everything in-between blue, green, and sort of red, apparently.