Final Project IDEA

Final project idea:

• Create something similar to tamagachi – 3D print casing – spherical with a space for an LCD screen
• LCD Screen will emote emotions – happy, sad, angry, barf
• You can feed the vivagachi via p5 – this will in turn make it happy in the physical world – also play sounds from computer
• If you feed it too much – it will make a barf face
• https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6455210

• How it works:
  • P5 will be in charge of all the code, it’ll just send arduino all the expressions. For example, [1,2,3,4] – each represents a diff emotion
    • 1 – happy – after being fed
    • 2 – sad – after being hit 
    • 3 – scared (light sensor for darkness)
    • 4 – full/barf
    • 5 – neutral
  • Can also have a sensor ..? – if it’s too dark it’ll make a scared face
  • Servo motor – control arms/hands – when happy, arms swing back and forth
  • Colors! – use neopixels – depending on the emotional transition – so each emotion has a color associated with it – depending on the transition, it’ll lerp one color to another. 1 to 2 – yellow to blue, for example
  • Force sensor on its hand..?if you hold it it’ll be happy, but if you press too hard, it’ll be sad (threshold)
  • Tilt sensor – if it’s upside down, say it’s dizzy