Five hours in Rob's office, One Critique, and Lab 6

 

It was very interesting to see how we could pop the internal wires and speaker out of the plastic coating and use the speaker. I enjoyed looking at the code and seeing how we could eventually make it work. I am looking forward to meeting with you again Monday and seeing about the new library which will hopefully make things easier. I am still a little unsure about having GitHub talk with Arduino. I wish they communicated more seamlessly like in visual studio code.  

I want to think about getting my piece from a long time ago to work consistently. Would I be able to play two different sound files out of two different ports at the same time? It should be simple to just loop them, attach a battery, and shove the arduino or sonatino inside the bird instead of the. weird mp3 situation that I was doing before. 

I am excited about the possibility of making the bird move. I have decided I am more interested in an element of magic and want to consider how to hide the motor. I think the best way to make it work would be to have the two wings hung from the ceiling and have the body hung in a way where it goes up and down. The first way I thought about doing it was by having a string/wire/thing I hang it from get wrapped around (at a medium speed) and then unwrap. So that the lifting and lowering of the body (which is also how the illusion of movement is achieved in that automaton) is  what gives the illusion of flight. I like the idea of keeping the bird very simple steel lines (a line drawing in space) and I'd like to keep the hardware minimal and possibly cover it. I think that there also might be an existing mechanism (you mentioned in class) that is already built to be like an up/down situation. I know that linear movement can also be achieved with a pulley, but I don't see how that would work for this idea. I want to see it move and then I will make further choices. 

I am having weird issues with the ports for Lab 6. I think I need new cables, the computer wasn't sensing the port where the arduino was connected. (It happened once last Monday too, but then resolved. I never got that part to resolve for lab 6.) But the wiring went fine and it was interesting to see how the ports were expanded and magnified. I just need to buy another cable I suppose. 










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