Celebration Globe

Intention

The team started with brainstorming and came up with an idea for lovers or friends who cannot share their everyday together, especially the romance feelings and subtle moment which SMS cannot achieve. So the team designed a pair of celebration globes. Between two persons, when one of them, who meet something happy or want to express feelings, can shake his or her globe. At the same time, the other globe which is held by the other person can see the globe works in a celebration model and share the feelings.

Context

This project is made in a pair and each one has a glass globe with 'snow' inside. Both of them own a tilt sensor and fan. When one globe's tilt sensor sense unbalance, that means the globe is shaken, the tilt sensor trigger the other globe's fan and blow up the 'snow' to create a celebration event.

Celebration Globe

Wendy Wei - https://youtu.be/-SGekxdG8YI

Storyboard

Two best friends living in different countries want to share their happy moments together. Celebration Globe helps them achieve this goal by converting it into a physical manifestation. When a person from one end shakes one globe, the globe at the other end gets triggered and stuff inside it moves informing the second person about the event. She can reply back with the same gesture, triggering the globe at the other end.

Design Process

Our design process includes three iterations. First, we started with making one minimum viable product which has only one a tilt sensor and a fan. After ensuring our device can trigger its fan by tilting itself, we moved forward to compute our second iteration. In this second generation, we added an identical device and revised code to allow communication between the two devices. Lastly, we added external glass globes and created snow affects in both our devices.

Second Iteration Demo Video:

IOT Devices project_2

Vagisha Singh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_l-UsL0vDM

Bill of Material:

2 CPU fans
2 tilt sensors
2 globes
2 particles
Jumper wires
2 TIP120 Transistors
10k-ohm resistors

Code for Device #1:

//connectedIntimacyDevice1
int fan = D1;    //Controls the fan
int tiltSensor = D0;
int sensorReading;
void setup()
{
 pinMode(fan, OUTPUT);    //Sets up the the fan control pin
 pinMode(tiltSensor, INPUT);
 Particle.subscribe("DIoT17_spinfan1", spinfan1);
}
void loop()
{
 sensorReading = digitalRead(tiltSensor);
 if(sensorReading == HIGH){
   celebration1();
 }
 else{
 digitalWrite(fan, LOW);
 }
}
void celebration1(){
  Particle.publish("DIoT17_spinfan2");
}
void spinfan1(const char *event, const char *data) 
{
  digitalWrite(fan, HIGH);
  delay(5000);
}

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Code for Device #2:

int fan = D1;    //Controls the fan
int tiltSensor = D0;
int sensorReading;
void setup()
{
  pinMode(fan, OUTPUT);    //Sets up the the fan control pin
  pinMode(tiltSensor, INPUT);
  Particle.subscribe("DIoT17_spinfan2", spinfan2);
}
void loop()
{
  sensorReading = digitalRead(tiltSensor);
  if(sensorReading == HIGH){
  celebration2();
  }
  else{
  digitalWrite(fan, LOW);
  }
}
void spinfan2( const char *event, const char *data){
   digitalWrite(fan, HIGH);
   delay(5000);
}
void celebration2(){
  Particle.publish("DIoT17_spinfan1");
}

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Reflection

This project was a bit different and challenging because, in addition to being ambient, these devices had to be identical and had to communicate gestures in a very subtle manner. So, the user space got restricted a bit because it could not be used for relationships such as human-pet as pets cannot communicate the same gestures using the device so easily. While brainstorming, we came across this idea that when people want to celebrate over distance, they usually call or video call and celebrate by congratulating visually or auditory but there is this gesture lacking there. That's how we came up with this idea of using this stirred up movement in snow globe to communicate the excitement of celebration. Doing this project reinforced our belief in the thought that technology is not as important as what can be done with technology.

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Friends or couples in different cities are not able to celebrate everyday life together. Subtle moments are not always shared. With the celebration globes, two people will be able to remotely connect and celebrate these fine moments with each other.

Created

February 12th, 2017

Made by vagisha singh, Haorong Ou, Hardik Patel and Wendy Wei