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Angel Sparrow's Online Lair
Smith College 2010, Computer Science and Economics double major.
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Project
Project Ideas
- Atmosphere Melody - (fancy name ^_^) using temperature, wind speed and humidity as input parameters, a MIDI will be played in the background creating something hopefully appropriate to the mood of the user
- Earthquake Alarm - as the name implies, output will be beeping sounds depending on the intensity of the predicted earthquake. I'm thinking of reading data from digitized records of a seismograph. I forgot to talk to my GEO professor about this yesterday, will do next week.
- Trustworthy Digital Pet - (I'm very creative when thinking of project names) expanding Dominique's idea of controlling a model electric car using Arduino.. maybe it will be better to attach a light output in the Arduino and the brightness of the light emitted will depend on how dark or bright is the car's surrounding. I have to do a bit more research about this.
Early Project Proposal
- Trustworthy Digital Pet
- Basically, what I want is for the Arduino to control the movements of a robot pet. This pet can move forward and backward and turn 90 deg CW. First objective is to make this pet move effectively.
- Second is sensing an obstacle. It senses obstruction in front of it using a light (distance) sensor. If there is an obstruction, the pet stops and waits for a movement. If there is a movement, the pet "barks" (yes, I want it to be a pet dog). If there is no movement and/or after it "barks", the pet turns and continues on its way.
- I also want to add the initial feature that I thought of when I said this pet would be "trustworthy". That is, adding another sensor to keep track of brightness of the surroundings and having light output. There will be a set amount of brightness for the surroundings and depending on how dark or bright it is, the output will adjust to keep the set amount.
- Basically, what I want is for the Arduino to control the movements of a robot pet. This pet can move forward and backward and turn 90 deg CW. First objective is to make this pet move effectively.
- Anti-Theft System
- There was a data projector recently stolen from Seelye. When I talked to our Classroom Support supervisor, Steve Davis, he suggested that I create a motion sensor project to prevent theft incidents from happening.
Project Proposal
Schematics
- First draft of project schematics:
Hardware
Software
Final Write-Up
Resources
- Arduino
- Arduino Tutorials
- Electricity Basics
- Sharp GP2D02 IR Sensor Datasheet
Demos and Examples
- Lab: Intro to Arduino
- Lab: Arduino with simple input and output devices
- Lab: Arduino and Assembly Language - An introduction
- Lab: Input/Output PC to Arduino
Images
- My Arduino
