To bring our initial concept to life, our first step involved installing 5 push buttons and a neopixel strip that would illuminate with a color corresponding to the color of the push buttons. The emotional scale and color spectrum were as follows:

1. Very Happy/Excited – Yellow

2. Happy – Green

3. Neutral/"Meh" – White (note, the image above has a black button although the corresponding light was white)

4. Sad – Blue

5. Very Sad/Frustrated – Red

In addition, we used Particle.publish to share our event with other teams who were networking with us (using our outgoing data).