Final project
My idea for this final project is to help childrens to identify their emotions. "Parents can struggle to help their children learn about feelings and how to appropriately express their emotions" [*]
Having that in mind, it's useful and very important to teach children about what are emotions and name that emotions. "Your child won’t be able to talk about emotions in healthy ways if they can’t recognise them in the first place." [*]
The main idea to solve this problem and help recognize children their emotions is create something that shows the emotions with a menu of emotions to pic. For that I decided that the best way is to create a device that shows a menu of emotions and displays it on a Neopixel matrix. Then all the emotions can be keeped on a log with the hour and date of that emotions. This could help parents to know when their children are really having trouble.
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The sketch and possible first try of this project is the next:
On the structure of the device we have the menu with the emotions, Those emotion buttons are in that specific place because research suggests that emotions in surveys should be arranged from worst to best. The emotions are also chosen taking into account the Mazlow pyramid and some other schemas.
HOW IT WORKS
The idea for this to work is that when turning on, the kid can tap the emotion that is feeling on the specific moment, when tapping the emotion, a "figure" with colors of the emotion is going to be displayed. After that image of the emotion displayed, other colors are going to be displayed if the emotion is bad.
That flowchart shows what the device for emotions is going to do.
Materials
There are going to be some needed materials for this project, on this list Im showing some of the items and material that I think Im going to need to elaborate it. This list is not the final one but a good look of what is needed.
| Qty | Description | Price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBD | 3D filament white | 25.00 $ | TBD |
| 80 | Neopixel | TBD | |
| 1 | Rechargable battery | 10.00 $ | TBD |
| 1 | Wireless charger receptor | 17.00 $ | TBD |
| 1 | Wireless charger transmitter | 8.10 $ | TBD |
| 2 | 3mm MDF | $5 | On IDIT |
| 5 | Touch sensor | $5 | On IDIT |
The App and interface was just created on the week of Interface and application Programming, actually the connetion with the XIAO is working:
Here is the Neopixel matrix PCB design that I'm going to mill:
To do list
- Turn on the neopixel matrix and save every pattern for emotion
- Print on 3D the structure for the device
- Check the battery and how it is going to work
- Create with MDF the base of the device
- Make it work.