For this week’s assignment, I wanted to create something that utilized my handy octo-buddy, especially when it came to detecting its emotions. I decided to use two lights: one red and one green. When the octopus was flipped to happy and placed on the sensor, the green light would light up. When it was angry, the red light would light up. To do this, I utilized copper tape and aluminum foil, flattened into a coin like shape. I took the copper tape and attached the wires for the switches in the tape that I then attached to the legs of the octopus – one on each side for each emotion. I also inserted a wire in the aluminum foil.
The result can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nE8djbPHpdQABXpe-pDiYClpSpO_8Dnd/view?usp=drive_link
All in all, it was a bit hard to get the octopus’ legs to align with the sensor when filming the video, but in the end, it wasn’t too hard of an assignment to complete. I do wish we had more discreet and longer wires, so the octopus didn’t have to be so close to the Arduino board.