This portion of the Connected Devices project aligns nicely with the Week 4 homework for Intro to Fabrication (making an enclosure) – so I’m writing one blog post to cover both classes.

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For the device project, I’m working with Callie Page (blog)

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Prompts

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Create an enclosure surrounding something

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Develop a plan for the physical display and interface of your first device project, test with displays, and update your system diagram accordingly.

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Process

Function

There’s been a bunch of iteration on the design and function of our device in the past week. Initially, we were going to use a Time-of-Flight sensor placed by a window to track the presence of pigeons.

Now, we’re shifting to what should (hopefully) be a more interesting use case:

• We’ll use the same ToF sensor to track when people are playing the piano in the ITP hallway.
• In addition to detecting activity, we’re also planning to use a microphone to detect the key of the music that’s being played on the piano, and display that in realtime to the person playing.

Pretty pictures!

Models and pictures of the various iterations (working backwards in time, from newest to oldest)

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Enclosure

Adding the electronics