Exercice 3 ; Sense (take two)

After having scraped down the xylophone idea, Kevin and I have turned to a small pinball type of game.

The circuit that had been built for the previous xylophone idea was almost entirely reused, so all of it was not lost. It needs a few adjustments and nre components and the biggest part to do at the moment are the actual boxes. 

The primary goal is to slip a marble inside of the box and to roll it to the other side, where a light will indicate if it fell into the right spot or not. The use of the drum sensors will measure the weight of the marbles to trigger the light and the buzzer.

The sketch of the game as well as the storyboard are on Kevin's blog at the moment, they will be added here later on.

As of right now, we do have a somewhat functioning prototype. We are still missing three zener diodes, which are needed for our project to function properly (we are waiting for the pieces to be shipped).

Exercice 3 ; Sense

Kevin and I originally wanted to make a xylophone, but realized much later that it did not integrate any of the required materials (marbles, feathers, string or clay).

I met Elio and he told me that the sensor we currently had, the LDT Piezo sensor, might be an issue because of the nature of the project and the sensitivity of said sensor. He then suggested the drum sensor, which might be efficient for our project.

We therefore decided to use the same circuit idea but make our game into some sort of small pinball game for 2 players (one model each).

Here were the first drawings of the xylophone game, which has now been abandoned.

 

Piezo Sensor - LDT Series

Name: LDT0-028K
Manufacturer:
Resercher names:

Image of the sensor:
Datasheet: right here (unable to link to direct pdf, sorry!)
Describe the main function of the sensor:
Examples of applications in the real world: Vibration Sensing in Washing Machine, Low Power Wakeup Switch, Low Cost Vibration Sensing, Car Alarms, Body Movement, Security Systems

Most of these informations were directly pulled from the from the following webpage.


Basic switch circuit using the sensor:

Most of these informations were directly pulled from the following website.

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In relation to our next assignment, Kevin and I wanted to use the sensor and integreate it into our windmill.

We would be working on the concept of wind making the pals turn (in our case, when we blow on it) to create more interactivity.

The sensor would most probably be located at the top of the windmill, and we would be adding light sensors inside of it.

Exercice 2 ; Animate (take two)

After trying to build the circuit, get the materials and assemble everything, Kevin and I have faced a few issues, one of them being 4 servo motors needed and more programming than we could manage to make for the moment.

So we've decided to redo our project.

The basic idea was to recreate a windmill.





 Here are the materials needed:

- Servo motor
- Arduino
- Wood (to create the windmill)
- bolts
- glue
- paint
- wires
- LED lights (for the inside of the windmill)

- possibly a sensor to capt any movement and change the polarity of the windmill's direction.

The approach was to create a relationship between elements, such as wind in this case, and humans interacting with it. The idea that a decoration object can respond to a user's presence the way it would respond to nature (wind) was our focus. In this sense, we wanted to recreate and ironize the human factor disturbing the windmill when only nature can in real circumstances.

here are some references we've looked up: