Project 3 Result!
Video: Project Statement: For this project, I was inspired by the inflatable tube guys, often seen in car lots. Since this was a project where we wanted to display an emotion when triggered by a sensor, I thought a good way to do this would be to have a stationary being that would show happiness when someone gets close. One way to do this would be to have a fan turn on, causing the inflatable tube to start billowing, but I did not want to introduce a fan or a sewing project into such a short project, so I thought servos could be used to emulate the motion by raising and waving the being's arms near its head when triggered by the proximity sensor. I had also planned to have a changing face, but based on the way I had already built the arms made me rethink its design from two faces that switch places to a happy mouth moving to cover a sad mouth when someone gets close. During the critique session, I was given the idea to have had the face rotate upright to switch the faces rather th
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