Concept
I have been thinking long on my final idea project and for now I stopped on idea of utilizing my midterm project and adding Arduino circuits to it.
Here is my previous Midterm project
The reason I decided to pursue my Friends Game House project was because I felt there is still room for its improvement in terms of interactivity. For example, I feel like the interfaces for the Ross, Joey, Monica characters can be designed more interestingly with greater room for unusual interactions. Therefore, I thought of transferring these interactions from software to real life. Currently, my focus stays on transferring important details from the Friends series into smaller things that I can build myself or recreate with elements that we learned to use in Arduino.
For example, in Phoebe interface, there is interaction with the user, where he has to press certain keys to voice specific lines of the songs. I think this can be transformed to the buttons on Arduino, especially bigger buttons that I saw in many final projects of previous students.
Here are some ideas that I’ve been noting to myself about the ways I can implement Arduino to the project:
- Joey’s interface – there was an idea initially that “Joey doesn’t share food”, so I could transfer it to Arduino, by making red LEDs go bright, when somebody is touching the plate with the food.
- Potentiometer to adjust the volume of the song on Phoebe’s screen or overall if the Friends theme song is implemented on the background.
- Using motors recreate the scene with umbrellas, so they could spin while the user is playing
