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[[Image:5objects.jpg|900px|thumb|left|from left to right: a neon store sign, an electronic chandelier, a backlit market sign, an motion-sensing sink, and a credit card swiper]]
== Final Proposal ==
With my final project, I wanted to use some kind of interactive light device, and I stumbled across the idea of a POV (persistence of vision) bike wheel project. Though I'm not entirely sure about the final concept of the project, I want the text to change with the speed of the bike wheels.
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Though I tried extremely hard to make the POV bike work, I couldn't with my still-novice electronics skills...And so, my next project idea was this: a donut eating elephant!
I've lately rediscovered the out-of-this-world goodness of Krispy Kreme - but I've also remembered that there is such thing as too much of a good thing. I feel like donuts are one of things that can easily cross the border from amazing to sickening. On one of my trips there with my roommate, we got these paper hats that say "EAT KRISPY KREME DONUTS." I thought it was hilarious that the hat commanded people to eat their donuts... I decided to poke fun at this a little bit.
I made an elephant doll that looks like your average children's toy. Then I put a 7 segment LED display right after the word "EAT" on the Krispy Kreme hat and put it on the doll. This led is hooked up to a PCB that is tucked in the hat, and then wired to the Arduino which is hidden in the ear of the elephant. I programmed the Arduino to display numbers on the LED. There is also breadboard hidden in the elephant's belly, which holds a normally open reed switch. The reed switch closes the circuit everytime it senses a magnet nearby.
So what I did was make a felt donut with magnets inside. Every time HAMILTON the elephant is "fed" a donut, the reed switch closes its circuit, thus making the LED display on his hat go up one, making the hat display "EAT # KRISPY KREME DONUTS." Because I only had access to one LED display, the numbers only go up to 9, and then resets to 0.
(pictures to come)
== Midterm Proposal ==
[[Image:dollscircuit.jpg|700px|thumb|left|]]
[[Image:dollsoff.JPG|700px400px|thumb|left|A girl & boy... just sitting...]][[Image:dollson.JPG|700px400px|thumb|left|Then, they hold hands!]] == Final Proposal == With my final project, I wanted to use some kind of interactive light device, and I stumbled across the idea of a POV (persistence of vision) bike wheel project. Though I'm not entirely sure about the final concept of the project, I want the text to change with the speed of the bike wheels.
