Assignment 11: Preliminary Concept for Final Project

I want to create a mini pet cat experience! The idea is to build a physical figure of a cat and have it connect to a p5.js sketch which shows the cat’s current mood. Users can pet the cat, and using some sensor (pressure sensor? or flex sensor?), the arduino will send this reading to p5.js and displays the cat’s mood on the screen.

Another way I could implement the cat is if I have it illustrated in p5.js. This way, users can also play yarn with the cat and watch the cat on the screen move to the user’s hand movements (perhaps tracked by an ultrasonic sensor).

This third way of implementation is I think on the harder side to implement, but I could try making a physical figure of a cat and use wheels so that it is able to move. Perhaps I could make the user control this movement using an ultrasonic sensor as well.

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