Mid-Term Idea
Week 2: Making a Prototype
Tuesday, Oct. 10th: We had our third meeting. It seemed like we were worried about creating an idea based on our observations. However, settled on something very quickly and become working out the technical problems.
Our Idea:
Twister is a game that is familiar to all of us. It has alot to do with motion but what if it had more to do with dancing? What would that game be like? We decided to try and create a musical version of Twister. This game would be played by two people who might like to dance together. Here's what it would look like.
The people playing will step on the circles. If they get the wrong combination the red light and a buzz will go off. If they get the right combination then the blue light will go off and a song with play. The goal is to get the right combination.
Problems with the Idea
We thought we should use pressure sensors to communicate with the arduino. These sensors would tell the arduino when someone stepped on the circle. However, we soon discovered that these sensors are expensive and hard to find. The computer store did have touch sensors but these too were expensive.
Allistar and Liz talked to Dan Shiffman and he gave us some helpful advice. We realized we didn't need a sensor we just needed to create a switch that people would step on. These could be made easily out of foil. It was amazing to realize that we just needed to think about things differently to make it work!