Storyboards

Brainstorming

Anthony Colin Yue

We decided to use a pressure sensor to control what message was displayed on our LCD. Depending on how hard you pushed down the LCD would display high pressure, medium pressure, low pressure, or no pressure.

Transistor

I decided to use muscle wire to heat up a piece of thermochromic fabric. Unfortunately i had to press down on the fabric to get anything to show because the muscle wire wasn’t getting as warm as I would have liked. I also could not get the while loop to serial print to the console and I’m not sure why.

Colin Martin CapSense

I decided to use a lemon as my capicitive sensor. While I am confident that this would work on any other board, I unfortunately decided to try my galileo which isn’t supported by the capsense library.

 

 

 

int analogPin=A0;
int ledPin=9;
void setup() {
pinMode(analogPin, INPUT);
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
int value=analogRead(analogPin);
Serial.println(value);
int ledValue=map(value,0,1023,0,255);
analogWrite(ledPin, ledValue);
delay(1000);
}

Potato Circuit

For my switch I took the button example patch in Arduino and added one more LED on pin 12. I took a potato and pushed two copper pennies into it on opposite sides, taping the wires to the pennies and running them into the breadboard like normal.