I haven’t selected a particular idea yet, but I have decided what I want to integrate into the project. Here are the ideas that I will be incorporating:
Interesting Input Design:
I want my project to have an interesting interaction interface for the user. Because of this, I want to limit the use of sensors to take input, and instead use a different approach. One idea that I had was to give the user the access to a bare breadboard. This breadboard wouldn’t be the main one that houses the circuitry for the project, but another one whose purpose is to act as input. This breadboard would be paired with wires, or some other type of plug that completes a circuit and thus provides some information as input.
Another type of input I thought of relates back to one of my earlier Arduino projects, which is to use some water as a conductive interface. I could have a few wooden floats that send a signal to the Arduino if put in the containers. The combinations of different floats in different containers serve as input to the project.