Project Objectives Lunch Time for the Puppy is an interactive children’s fabric book. The book is made from felt and other fabric material with different textures, and is embedded with soft sensors and electronic output elements for creating a rich storytelling experience. We produced a proof of concept prototype of the design by making one
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Author: Yanwen Dong
5/5 Catherine&Yanwen Final Critique
Demo of a page in a puppy-themed interactive fabric book We used the Multi-Touch Kit Software Toolkit and attached it to the back of the left ear of the puppy. The only other digital intput is a fabric button hidden underneath the puppy’s belly. For outputs, we combined visual, audio, and haptic feedbacks using LEDs,
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5/3 Catherine&Yanwen Updates
On the technical side: We programmed the microcontrollers, and our setup involves two Arduinos: One is connected to the multi-touch grid. This arduino is controlled by a processing sketch and sends signals to the other arduino for outputs other than sounds. One is connected to all other input&output components: neopixel LEDs, vibration motors, and fabric
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4/26 Catherine & Yanwen Updates
We have developed our own working API with the following events: We ran into some troubles when trying to detect sliding behavior, partly because of the grid is actually low resolution, and it cannot slide from touching multiple positions at the same time. Thus we decided to put sliding apart and use the other interactions.
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4/21 Catherine & Yanwen Updates
Following the suggestions on mapping out possible user behaviors towards the touch pad and designing states and unpredictability for the setup, we started to write down the categories in a Google sheet: While waiting for the components to be ready for pickup, we will continue on finishing and refining these listed interactions and outputs before
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4/19 Catherine & Yanwen Updates
This week, Yanwen rewired her sensor grid and put it on a different surface(cutting board to desk surface) and the reading becomes much clearer. Both the single and multi-touch detections became much more reliable, so we think that we have a sensor grid fabrication method that we can reliably test on now. We tried adding
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4/12 Catherine & Yanwen Update
We rewired the 3×3 sensor grid we had last week and the signals become much cleaner, so I think the noisy signal from last week is caused by error in wirings. We were able to figure out a somewhat efficient way to create the sensor grid and fabricated a 6×6 sensor grid(which still took 2h+)
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4/7 Catherine & Yanwen Update
Through out the past week, we were able to solder the multiplexer and copper tape pieces with wires for the hardware pieces that are needed for the setup. We were also able to download and run the example code from both of the example code in the Arduino and Processing libraries. However, we ran into
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Mar 29th, Catherine&Yanwen Update
We decided to use the open source multi-touch kit and purchased the parts needed for the kit. We also brainstormed on how to integrate the technology into our fabric book in a specific scenario. We decided to extend on the Jellycat If I were a Puppy Board Book and integrate digital tactile inputs, digital outputs(sound,
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Catherine & Yanwen Project Update
We did more literature research with the goal of focusing on a single sensing technique, and we realized that work in this space is much more advanced and complex compared with the approaches that we were looking at before. The two possible technical directions that we eventually narrowed down to are touch tracking with electric
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