The input that I had was, "brain waves" and the output, "fire". It was time to do some brainstorming and be creative.
The first thought/idea that came to my mind was the "human torch". If you've watched the movie, "Fantastic Four", you'll recall that one of the superheroes was called the human torch where he would light on fire by instinct or in this case "brain waves". This idea was just for laughs/comedy. A good start I would say even if it was a little unpractical.
My second idea was to use brainwaves to turn on a fireplace. If someone wanted their fireplace turned on, all they would have to do is think it and use their 'brain waves' to turn it on. This would be quite intense.
From the help of my first thought and second idea, I came up with a third example/idea. This idea is an installation or toy that uses brainwaves to emit the amount of stress of a person by the display of a volcano (not real of course). Remember those highschool science fairs where students would make volcano projects and they would erupt? Similar idea; a display of a volcano where there is a sensor/wire attached to it with two ends, a person can put the other end of the wire/sensor on their head/near their brain where the brainwaves will emit the amount of stress of a person. The volcano will erupted (high or low) based on the individual's stress level sent out by the brainwaves. This would be a cool toy/installation to play around with.
Below is just a photo of the brainstorming I did on paper. It also includes the group sense experience as well under it.
After our own individual sense experience, we were to get into groups of two or three to come up with something that suited all the inputs and outputs. In the end, we ended up getting 3 inputs and 3 outputs. Our inputs were direction, location and movement and our outputs were fire, water and dancing. What we came up with was a sort of treading water exercise object that lets swimmers exercise/practice treading water. We thought about a pool that obviously has water. Located at the bottom of these pools are sensors. These sensors sense the movement of a person when they are dancing, or in this case, treading water. When a person decides to stop treading water and stand in the pool, depending on how long they stand in the water, the pool will begin to heat up to notify the person that they are standing for too long and should go back to exercising/practice treading water.
After our sense experience exercise, we began to have an overview of Arduino. I never took IAT 267, so it was new to me, but doing the exercise that was assigned to us was pretty easy for me. I think my basic knowledge in programming was able to help me with it. Arduino seems pretty easy to grasp onto so I should be fine when we're using it for projects. I was able to get my LED light to blink and then able to connect 2 others to light up as well (using resistors). I then, changed a bit of the existing program to deal with the delays to get a different reaction from the lights.
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