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PROJECT ONE

Sketches and Proposals for Next Week. Pick at least 2 project types from below and post a proposal on your Twiki page. The proposal should include 250 words and sketches. In your proposal you need to point to specific input and output devices.

It is alright at this stage if you do not know how to build or program what you are proposing. By develping these ideas now we will research the specific parts and code you will need.

Sample Input Device
photoresistor - light and movement
microphone - sound
pizeomicrophone - pressure
pushbutton - physical
flexsensor - physical
lazer and photoresistor - movement

Basic Output Devices
led - light
speaker - sound
motor
rotational
directional
vibration

Code Behavior and Processing
automation/scripted
dynamic/variable

Modify Existing Object ( Make Interactive and Mechanize )

Take an existing object and make it interactive using one or more input devices. These inputs should then effect a respose from one or more output elements.

Example -
"Peek-a-Boo Teddy Bear" - Replace its eyes with photoresistors. Every time its eyes are covered and then revealed it activates a voice box which says the phrase "Peek a Boo" and activates a motor which raises and lowers its arms.

Mobile Interactive ( Pet )

Design a bug like creature that responds to its environment and reacts both mechanically and electronically.

Example -
"LaternBug" - A mobile robot that moves in the direction of a light source using an array of photoresistors.

Mechanical Music/Light Instrument

Design an instrument that responds user input to create a range of electronic and physical outputs.

Example -
"JellyFishOrgan" - An array of flex sensors that you move your hand across. When the flex sensors are bent the instrument is programmed to produce variable pitches and tones, as well as vibrate itself using an offset motor.

Motorized Reflex or Memory Game

Design a stationary object that responds dynamically to user input based on a preset structure. Challenge conventional ways to play traditional games.

Example -
"MyVoice" - An adaptation of the MySimon using microphones and speakers. Speak into a series of Microphones. The progam will then take that series of tones and add anoter series making the series more complex.