Change of Final Project......
I am not working on a new Physical Computing Final project involving my ICM final. The idea is go have me standing in the middle of a room with ropes attached to me. There will be a box with ropes coming out of each side and when you physically pull the ropes you will see the image of me getting pulled around the room.
What I am looking to do is build a wooden box about 3ft high with a pulley system inside that will tilt an accelerometer when the ropes are pulled. This will in effect send data through the Arduino to Processing and work with my program.
I spent a day or so constructing this box that will be large and durable enough to with stand people pulling and tugging at it.
The difficult part was figuring out a way to have the accelerometer tilt to a side when a rope is pulled then retract in it's orginal position. I wasn't aware of any hinge that did this and wasn't exactly sure how to do it.
After a lengthy conversation with my father, he recommended this bungee system inside the box. Which actually works rather well. The bungee does a nice job of making the user pull and stretch the rope giving the feeling really pulling something. Then when released it will immediately go back to the orginal position.
As you see here.