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Anxiety Pop

Made by Macarena Tabilo, Annisa Prasetyanto and Ammani Nair

Found in Ambient Affect

You know when you're always late when you're trying to catch the bus? With Anxiety Pop, you will never be late again. The feeling of anxiety is now visible to you! By placing a balloon on to our state of the art Balloon Poppin' device, the balloon will gets bigger and bigger until the bus reaches your bus stop. But that's not all, if you didn't manage to grab that wallet off of our device, the pins around the balloon contraption will blow your balloon up!

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ANXIETY POP

You know when you're always late when you're trying to catch the bus? With Anxiety Pop, you will never be late again. The feeling of anxiety is now visible to you! By placing a balloon on to our state of the art Balloon Poppin' device, the balloon will gets bigger and bigger until the bus reaches your bus stop. But that's not all, if you didn't manage to grab that wallet off of our device, the pins around the balloon contraption will blow your balloon up!"

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int vPump = D0;
int atHome = D1;
unsigned lastBusTime = 0;
bool busHere = false;
void setup()
{
  pinMode(vPump, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(atHome, INPUT_PULLUP);
  Particle.subscribe("bustime", callballonpop);
}

void loop()
{
  if (busHere == TRUE)
  { if (millis() - lastBusTime  < 5000)
    {
      balooonpop();
    }
    else
    {
      digitalWrite(vPump, LOW);
      busHere == FALSE;
    }
  }
}


  void callballonpop(const char *event, const char *data)
  {
    lastBusTime = millis();
    busHere = TRUE;
    loop();

  }

  void balooonpop()
    { if (digitalRead(D1) == LOW)
      {
        digitalWrite(vPump, HIGH);
      }
      else
      {

        digitalWrite(vPump, LOW);
      }


  }
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Bill of parts

1. Particle photo

2. Breadboard

3. 12V Power Supply

4. Vacuum pump

5. Transistor

6. Diode

7. Resistor

8. Copper Tape

9. Jumper cable

10. Pipet

11. Balloon

12. Pins

13. Foam board Casing

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STORYBOARD:

IDEA 1 - Celebration

IDEA 2 - ANXIETY <- Chosen Idea

IDEA 3 - IMPATIENCE

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Prototype 1

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Box of PINS

Prototype 1 & 2

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You know when you're always late when you're trying to catch the bus? With Anxiety Pop, you will never be late again. The feeling of anxiety is now visible to you! By placing a balloon on to our state of the art Balloon Poppin' device, the balloon will gets bigger and bigger until the bus reaches your bus stop. But that's not all, if you didn't manage to grab that wallet off of our device, the pins around the balloon contraption will blow your balloon up!

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February 8th, 2017