Final Project
First Proposal
I want to make a big wall piece out of a sound swallowing material for play schools and schools and after school places.
I have been working a lot with children and I think it is vital to find some solution to the noise that is in their daily environment. Carpeting is really insanitary and hard to keep clean so most school have linoleum floors and pretty much bare walls. There is of course solution that some airports and other places have used in order to reduce the noise level but they are all rather expensive.
I want to make something colorful for children that is also a game or a puzzle. The main material will be some kind of foam and right now I feel like it shaped like waves on water. There will be holes where pieces of cut out of foam will fit into. The shapes could be different types of fish but I have not decided yet. Once you remove one piece, a colored light shines or low sounds of waves begins -
then the trick is to find the matching piece that has the same light or sound. I would then have have a reset button that changes what happens in each hole since children learn quickly and become bored if things are too easy.
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The Final Project
The development of the final project is available on the pages of weekly assignments. Most of it is on page Application and Implication - week 15 and on Project Development - week 19. All the files are on week 19.
Project Development in short
I have four RGB boards designed in Eagle with an extra connenctor so I can connect them all together. Eagle file. I made a connection board in Eagle that I use to connect from the computer to the RGB boards and the Hall Sensor boards - all the boards get their power from the computer. Connection Eagle file. Here is the Hall Sensor Eagle file. The RGB boards are programmed with this Arduino file.
more details and photos can be found here.
I have four Hall Sensor boards programmed with this Arduino file.
more details and photos can be found here.
I milled out a piece of cork 600mm x 900mm x 70mm in the shopbot using Fabmodules. It has 18 holes in it that will all have a RGB board in the bac k(now only 4).
more details above.
I designed and 3D printed small turtles that hold a magnet so the input board can read if a piece has been removed from the hole.
more details above
I put transparent plexi in the holes to even out the light.
I cut circles out in the vinylcutter in order to hold the magnets in the hole.
I didn´t safe the file for the mdf plates holding the circuit boards since I will redesign them once I have the redesigned the boards themselves.
I found a memory game on the internet that has a javascript code that I took and adjusted to work with my game. My javascript file.
I downloaded Node.js in order to connect to the websocket. Here is the code for the bridge.
Here is the file for the websocket.
Here is the file for the index.
Here is the css file for the game.
more details here.
What is working
I have the game working with four lights in connection with the website. The game starts only when I press the start button on the website. I have the physical design of the game finished.
What needs to be done
I want to design a new board that has both the RGB and Hall Sensor on it so I will have only have one board behind every hole.
I need to figure out an Arduino code for that board.
I need to work on the javascript code.
I would want to adjust the code to work with the new board.
I would like the game to start when the first piece is removed.
The dream would be to have a Raspberry pie controlling the game.