Looking Outward – Page 2 – Making Things Interactive, Fall 2020

Interesting State Machines

This is a iron that adjust its temperature according to the fabric with no setting and sorting required. If only it is cheaper…

2. I have been to underground parking that keeps track of its slots. It will then guide incoming cars to the empty slots with lights or LED signs.

Interesting State Machines

Similar to the Korean bath room state machine, this is a Japanese ramen booth seating chart state machine. It shows how many and which seats are empty.

This water kettle that my mom bought can boil water and also keep the water warm. When the light is red, it means the water is heating, and keep warm is not on. When the light is purple, it means the water is heating and water well be kept warm once it finished boiling. When the light is blue, it means the water is being kept warm.

Interesting state machines

This device disrupts the listening of smart speakers until you initiate a voice command. (Source)

2. Food delivery robots (Source)

3. Interactive jewelry that glows differently according to number of people around.

My necklace has ✨, 👀, & a 🧠!

Building living jewelry with a #RaspberryPi, #tensorflowjs & #arduino pic.twitter.com/fvoVaGtohz

— Stephanie (@stephaniecodes) May 13, 2019

Interesting State Machines

These socks will automatically pause the show that you are watching if you fall asleep.

This bottle when turned on and connected to music via Bluetooth will start and pause the music just by opening and closing the lid.

Interesting State Machines

Korea’s public bathroom state machine; tells you which booths are occupied

Ground traffic lights for people whoo look at their phone when waiting/crossing the road

music player; shows different states and it is followed by actions of going in and out of the current state

Haptic baton developed for blind musicians

This is pretty interesting — a haptic baton created by Human Instruments who work on accessibility for musicians.

Skills bringing to the class (Assignment 1)

As a mechE, I have a lot of experience in fabricating things. With the remote setting and the resources I have, this won’t necessarily allow me to build amazing physical contraptions; however, I think that my experience and creativity will help me to make things that are still pretty cool even with household items. I have used Arduino quite a bit and know Python, so I have a good foundation for coding my projects. I also have used a wide variety of sensors and actuators before, so am excited to keep expanding with new things this semester and to build more complicated contraptions.