Project 1 Photos and Video

Circuit setup

Last time when i showing the interm presentation

Try to add one more on it but does not working... maybe try this for next time... there are only six analog pins on the Arduino uno board

Here we go, so basically that all the circuit part for the arduino, six solar panel+ one speaker, because we lack of analog pins, only six on the arduino uno board, and also as an instrument it could not possible just have these six keys, but it is prototype for the project idea, i think i already close to the final work. So after that i go into work with how it look like more interesting part... as i said on the last presentation, I probably will try to use the RGB LED to look more  attractive not just the functional prototype as we saw last time.

After a few days, i put one RGB LED light on the breadboard, and use some other coding for the experiment with the RGB, like the RGB LED light could do something follow with the music, below video is how it is working. So i think this should be work fine when i put the RGB coding into my one. But it does not working after i put into it, the logic part sounds quite messy,Or maybe I did not figure out the common anode or common cathode, the second one is how it does, and maybe recheck and debug the coding part.

so that is before my final result, it might be could not see the led light clearly, because maybe during take video time the light condition did not account inside... so sorry about that haha.

How to make looks have more funcitonality, yep... That is what i am asking about, so basically I get a picture frame, by using some material such as cardboard, foamboard and several tapes to make it looks 3 dimensions looking, looking beauty than last time presentation. And by looking the code for the tone, i figure out the correct sound... did not to confuse the user...
  
So that is how it is looks like at back and front, i just by using platics tape to hode the back for my breadboard,speaker, and lots of components behind, i thought it would be quite easy to just put like this, it could be easy for holding, so i did not soldering in it with the pcb board.

 

breadboard view

how it works in frizting...

Research and Process during the Project 1

The video is before I start to use Arduino for hacking the solar light, and just try to understand the basic idea about how to hack the them. First i used the solar light and the buzzer I brought from shop to connect them together, but the thing if you do not put code into it. The solar led light will just turn up and buzzer will always buzz.

The arduino board that hacking with the solar LED light.

After that I have look the youtube channel, there was a person upload that video which helps great idea for the solar led light.
First one he just take apart the solar led light and second one is how to make them link together and also could use really cheap solar panel for batteries charger. 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Plush-toy-singing-with-Mommys-voice/#step1

DIY for the toy?

Do,Re,Mi,Fa 4 keys for the instrument almost finish. 

I used the transistor to build the solar light (it actually like the button, but you need light to control  it)working. So I will use the torch to help me to get the voice (Do,Re,Mi,Fa). Right now i just have these four tones, from the speaker (kiwi toys speaker) i found it is hard to distinguish the sound. Maybe because of the frequency is not like the piano sound such beauty sound.

Research for my interface

So today we final get our starting kit for the arduino, hopefully all my plan was basically like the timeline plan. 

Have a deep research for the LED walk path light

Here! is the basic tutorial show me about the principle for the PIR motion sensor.

Today's tutorial work.

There is also one of good example to show proximity sensor for the project. Might be give me some idea about distance between the user and interface. I could tried to use that kind of idea to put on the my  project. The link about the proximity.

  

Timeline

First Concepts

So here is my rough concept for the 251 first project and several sketches about the idea what i am thought.

Different interface models

Several interface model i find interest and try to open it up