Emotional Alarm Clock
OVERVIEW
For this project I wanted to explore what it might be like if my alarm clock had emotions. In the video below I show my prototype of what I had in mind.
Emotional Alarm Clock from David Chan on Vimeo.
PROCESS
I began by figuring out the sequence of events for the alarm clock scenario seen in the video above. I then used a breadboard to test the NTK setup before wiring the project into a clock form. After many more test runs, and layering in video assets, the project was ready to demonstrate.
There is one more interaction piece that I coded in after the video was shot. When the alarm clock gets frustrated with blinking lights after the second round of alerts, the minute hand erratically jolts forward and backward in time instead of continuing on in a normal fashion.
MATERIALS AND TOOLS
Arduino UNO
NETLab Toolkit
GarageBand
Continuous servo
Photo sensor
Red LED
Various wires and resistors
Wood shop (various tools)
Foam Core
Found objects
PROJECT BRIEF
Your task is to design a simple system with one sensor (e.g. knob, light, proximity) and one output (LED or audio). This system should react to a user interacting with the sensor by responding with some behavior that seems to be emotional.
CLASS
Creative Technology 1
INSTRUCTOR
Elise Co