Making
I built "Rise Again" which is a symbolic morning ritual mechanism designed to help the user find his or her calm. Every morning the user will take time out of their day to be quiet, to breathe, and to wind the device. Reassuring audible ticking, tactile feedback, and the symbolic notion of lifting the weight help the user find peace. As the day progresses the weight falls and drives the escape wheel which oscillates the pendulum. A Hall sensor behind the pendulum counts the number of pendulum passes. A threshold is set for the number of passes once the weight has completely lowered. Once the Arduino reads that the threshold has been met, it tells the servo motor to actuate, and hammers the bell indicating the user it is time again to meditate. |
I volunteer as a caretaker at a summer camp for adults with and with disabilities called Zeno Mountain Farm. Every 4th of July we as a camp enter the Parade.
The night before the parade I had the idea to build a costume that would look like a 9-foot-tall jester. I designed and built 2 costumes out of PVC, Chicken wire, duct tape, Styrofoam heads, and whatever we had laying around camp. I stayed up all night building these costumes, debuted them when the rest of camp woke up, and walked all day in the Parade. Zeno ended up winning 1st place in the Parade competition. |
I designed and built a logic circuit for a car with two motors so that the car would follow the white tape on a black board, recognize splits in the tape, and choose the correct path based on the tape color at splits. No microprocessors like Arduinos were used for this project. All sensor voltage inputs went through a series of hardwired logic gates to inform which wheel's motor should be actuated.
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