{"id":800,"date":"2009-11-22T19:02:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2009-12-13T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:46:39","slug":"phys-comp-finalmy-rejects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/phys-comp-finalmy-rejects\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Physical Computing: Final Project&#8230;Rejects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did I come to my final idea. Well, I rejected many other ideas first. For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UV-Sunlight Watch:<\/strong> I thought I&#8217;d try to make one of my fantasy devices. A UV-Sunlight watch that helps you get a good amount of daily sunlight. However, after some research, and learning that UV calculators really do exist, I was a little put off by the idea. A sunlight detection watch is useful, but I wanted to try something original and something that I would like. (Not to say that the idea of a plant that responds is completely original&#8230;.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2824.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2824-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"UV-Sunlight watch\" title=\"UV-Sunlight watch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2824-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2824.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear = \"all\"; \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Interactive Floor:<\/strong> I thought about some kind of sidewalk\/responsive floor. This came from the knowledge I&#8217;d gained in making a switch for the balance board, media controller. I considered a few options for this: the Moonwalk sidewalk, a child&#8217;s play area, etc. After I while, I thought that while it could be very colorful and fun, I wanted to try something a little bit more substantive.<a href=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2826-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"interactive floor\" title=\"interactive floor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2826-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2826.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear = \"all\"; \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Others: <\/strong>I thought about a never-ending puzzle that would use an accelerometer to control a ball&#8217;s descent through a visual maze. Seemed really difficult.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2827-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"maze\" title=\"maze\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2827-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2827.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear = \"all\"; \/><br \/>\n Also, I didn&#8217;t properly document it, but I thought about a portable photo booth. I got this idea from a rectangle that had been left in the junk bin and reminded me of a frame. I thought about walking around and seeing the world in photographs. How would this work? Well, my idea was that you would carry a frame on your shoulders and people could take photos with you if they wanted in your photo booth. I did not go with this idea out of fear of the expense of potentially additional camera equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Light-Piano:<\/strong> This idea was to create a grid of LEDs and photocells that, after reaching a certain threshold, would trigger a sound.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2829-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"LED Piano1\" title=\"LED Piano1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2829-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2829.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear = \"all\"; \/><br \/>\nThe sounds I wanted would correlate to a musical scale, so essentially you could play a grid of LEDs. I kind of went with this for a while. I thought it would look pretty and you could put it on a wall. I sort of wanted it to look like this, but cost MUCH less.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IkmpIXd9Q90&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IkmpIXd9Q90&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I talked about these ideas to other students and they appreciated all of my ideas, and they came up with suggestions for me as well. But, something about the idea seemed&#8230;oh, unspecific. Like the project was not thoughtful enough. Eventually, as I thought about sensors and realizing that I could use a much smaller grid, with my own sounds, somehow the idea of sighing came to me. Possibly because I was sitting by a window and there was a small plant nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve talked to my fellow students again, about my new idea and they all like it, too. This time however, when I say, &#8220;The plant will sigh, like it&#8217;s happy to see you, when you come close to it,&#8221; they say, &#8220;Awwww&#8230;.&#8221; Cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I come to my final idea. Well, I rejected many other ideas first. For instance&#8230; UV-Sunlight Watch: I thought I&#8217;d try to make one of my fantasy devices. A UV-Sunlight watch that helps you get a good amount of daily sunlight. However, after some research, and learning that UV calculators really do exist, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/phys-comp-finalmy-rejects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intro to Physical Computing: Final Project&#8230;Rejects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1,77,76],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}