Photoresistor

Liam Brady

Photoresistors are resistance-based sensors that react to how much light they are being hit by. The more light present, the smaller the resistance across the sensor. The Arduino is able to measure the changing resistance to determine how much light is in the room.

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
  int val = analogRead(A0);

  Serial.println(val);
}

Unbottle Your Emotions

Alex Gough-Schnapp

Unbottle Your Emotions

Miriam Lourie and Alexander Gough-Schnapp

In a dystopian future, people are unable to properly engage with their emotions. To address this lack public feeling, scientists discovered a line of drugs that help people temporarily experience certain emotions. To make this widely available, private company partnered with these scientists to create robotic dispenser of these drugs for recreational use.

 jkjk it's safe I swear I added ankle support it's fine

Beyond the Tree

Hannah Glueck

Beyond the Tree


Hannah Glueck


Saving Skills

Grace Reyelt and Grace Reyelt

Saving Skills

Grace Reyelt

Zoom Focus + (Presentation)

pierre Belizaire

Beyond the Tree

Hannah Glueck

Beyond the Tree


Hannah Glueck


Beyond the Tree

Hannah Glueck

Beyond the Tree


Hannah Glueck


Tuesday Check in

Tessa Fast

Based on Melbourne data, selected plastic as a waste product to repurpose (85% of plastics are sent to Melbourne's landfill). 

Three major plastic types

HDPE - High Density Polyethylene

  • Examples: shampoo bottles, milk jugs

LDPE - Low Density Polyethylene

  • Examples: zip lock bags, Saran Wrap, plastic grocery bags, any stretchy plastic material 

PET - Polyethylene Terephthalate 

  • Examples: plastic soda bottles, clothing fibers (polyester) 


Day 1 | Wednesday: 

  • Collect plastics! 
    • Collect 3 different HDPE items
    • Collect 3 different LDPE items
    • Collect 3 different PET items
  • Post photos of these items on the platform
  • Watch "The Story of Plastic" (1.5 hours, purchase for $3 on Amazon Prime) 

Day 2 | Thursday: Create a process to beginning to test 

  • Clean all plastic items (9 total) 
  • Design tool to process plastic
  • "Processing" the plastics
    • For each of the major plastic types, choose 1 item to: 
      • Shred 
      • Turn it into strips 
      • Heat to form new shape (use hair dryer, do this test outside, and be careful!)
      • Compression (use books or heavy material) 

Day 3 | Friday: 

Research how these plastics repurposed for the following: 

  • Fabric
  • Brick / block 
  • Net or basket
  • Flatware

Once you've completed your research, begin experimenting to create: 

  • Fabric
  • Brick / block 
  • Net or basket
  • Flatware

You can use the techniques you learned the day prior (shredding, stripping, heat and compression). Document your creations! 

Check out what this guy created


Day 4 | Monday: 

Day 5 | Tuesday: 

Ultrasonic Sensor (Large)

Liam Brady

Ultrasonic sensors are distance sensors that use sound waves to detect how far away an object is. They send out high frequency bursts of sound and listen for its echo. They then determine how far away the object is based on how long it takes for the sound to return to the sensor. This variety requires an Arduino library to operate.

 

NewPing Library

#include <NewPing.h>

NewPing mysensor(5, 6, 200);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
  int pingTime = mysensor.ping();

  int distance = mysensor.ping_in();

  int distance_cm = mysensor.ping_cm();

  Serial.println(distance);
}