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Final assignment: Ultimate Slap Machine 3000!

Feat. Lorenzo

For the final semester project we want to create the Slap Machine. We got inspired by Simone Giertz’ Wake-Up Machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3281885929&feature=iv&src_vid=61FaYVGVY_I&v=mXLzfAHl4-k) but decided to focus more on the slap and less on the waking up, so it's multipurpose!

We made a general sketch of how we want to make it look and work

We want to use a DC motor to rotate a plastic hand that will slap you when you press the button. And voilá! Getting slapped was never easier!

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Assignment: Visualizing sensor on LCD screen

For this assignment, we decided to do a digital thermometer with a temperatyre sensor and the LCD screen.

This project was based on this project by Konstantin Dimitrov https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/TheGadgetBoy/making-lcd-thermometer-with-arduino-and-lm35-36-c058f0?ref=search&ref_id=sensor%20lcd&offset=1

We used his schematic and followed the second version of the code explained there.

Assignment: LED Matrix

For this, our idea was to visualize the input of the potentiometer in the LED matrix. Unfortunately, we only had access to two colors LED matrixes and Dave never came back to his office :(

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Temperature Alarm

I tried to make a temperature alarm (which idk if I used the right thing oops) that it seems to work! It was supposed to buzz when the temperature was under -30 (bc for some reason it showed the temperature that way). 

I actually forgot to do a schematic ����

Here's the code! https://pastebin.com/YwCHEH0h

I found how to read the temperature here https://learn.adafruit.com/tmp36-temperature-sensor/using-a-temp-sensor

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Calibration

Code, schematic and explanation can be found here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Calibration

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Extra Assignment!

Light Sensitive Mood Lamp!

So this one was a bit more personalized. I used the LDR to created a lamp that changes colors with the amount of light around. I used an RGB LED for the light and put a fancy glass on top to try to make it look like a lamp.

Here’s also the serial monitor reading the LDR.

And the schematic:

And the code:

https://pastebin.com/V9MwEpRx

This project was inspired by the photoresistor project here https://www.makerspaces.com/15-simple-arduino-uno-breadboard-projects/ and the project by Andre Infante here http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/build-companion-cube-mood-lamp/

I also used the codes they provided as my guideline to what I was supposed to be doing.

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Second Assignment!

Arduino LED dice!

It is exactly how it sounds. You click the button and you get a random number (represented by the number of LEDs on) from 1 to 6, like throwing a dice.

The schematic:

The code:

https://pastebin.com/0ADJTkg7

I reproduced the project made by Esther van der Stappen found on https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/EvdS/led-dice-885cf1?ref=tag&ref_id=led&offset=37

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First Assignment!

LED Traffic Light!

This project is a simple three LED circuit that emulates a traffic light. I added a fading out yellow LED for some flair.

The schematic:

The code:

https://pastebin.com/nnJ01snt

This project was inspired by the million of traffic light projects I saw around but more specifically this one by Joe Coburn at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/arduino-traffic-light-controller/

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So this may not be exactly an electronic built, but I find it a very interesting interactive system.

We Feel Fine is a project where the system searches through recent posts by people on their blogs and compiles every sentence with the phrase “I feel” or “I am feeling” and categorizes the post by feeling. If the post has a picture, it gets added as a background to the phrase.

The way to see the feeling can be changed, by example having them all scattered and clustered around the cursor, or by feeling or by stats.

From the website of the project:

The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles' properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.

Blog data comes from a variety of online sources, including LiveJournal, MSN Spaces, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr, Technorati, Feedster, Ice Rocket, and Google.

We Feel Fine scans blog posts for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". This is an approach that was inspired by techniques used in Listening Post, a wonderful project by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen.

Once a sentence containing "I feel" or "I am feeling" is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence, and then saves the full sentence in a database.

Once saved, the sentence is scanned to see if it includes one of about 5,000 pre-identified "feelings". This list of valid feelings was constructed by hand, but basically consists of adjectives and some adverbs. The full list of valid feelings, along with the total count of each feeling, and the color assigned to each feeling, is here.

If a valid feeling is found, the sentence is said to represent one person who feels that way.

I found this project very interesting in several ways. I really liked the interface design and how it interacted with the cursor or the characteristic.

The concept is a very very nice. Being all about making a growing database of feelings that expands and develops with everyone. Also how it can be used as  a “research tool” with the categorize, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men?

Website: http://www.wefeelfine.org/index.html

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Well, hello.

You’ve found this tumblr about my I/M/D Electronic adventures! I’m Allie, a 19-year-old Venezuelan in her first year of I/M/D at the KABK and living in The Hague.

I studied one year of International Media and Entertainment Management before the KABK. I mostly work with digital media but I’m trying to dab into other things too!

I like animals, cute things, sleeping and taking really bad pictures of myself.

Let’s get electronic.

Beep boop.