Super Yoakim Bro

•Simple horizontal movement

•Projects interactive images onto walls

•Creating interactive and interesting spaces as a form of temporary entertainment.

•With speakers connected could also output satisfying noises.

•Horizontal movement combined with vertical movement.

•With sound effects to better enhance entertainment or message.

Note: Screw you all you people who said I could never live in a videogame!!

•Security scenario

•Applications are not limited to entertainment

•Scuffing sound and warning sounds can be made.

  One of the local gang members being scared off by a giant robot crab.

The projector is designed to be placed on the underside of ceilings to project the images onto walls.

•Three horizontal sensors

•One vertical sensor

•Outdoor Projector

•Retractable for vandal resistance.

•Made from 2mm Stainless Steel.

I decided to make it out of sheet metal as it is very strong and vandal resistant. Also I can make a model out of it easily. I will just flat pattern it and make a drawing of it then stick the drawing onto some cardboard. Then ill cut the cardboard out and the drawing file will tell me where to fold as well!

PYROELECTRIC MOTION SENSOR

How it works

http://www.glolab.com/pirparts/infrared.html

Advantages

•Extremely basic and cheap technology

•Detects single direction movement.

•Theory is that if this technology should work then results and experience can be improved a lot using slightly more advanced technology made for more specific uses

•Each one of these basic sensors costs $2 from hardware store.

I also figure that if I can create this video using Final Cut for the first time then what can be done with the projector will also not be limited.  

 

Pyroelectric Infrared Movement Sensor

www.murata.com/products/catalog/pdf/s21e.pdf

Idea Exploration Task

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Idea 2 was clearly voted the highest.

Idea 1 was just a warm up to get my thinking going. I wanted a way for grandparents to entice their grandchildren to  their house. Personally sometimes going to see my Grandparents was a bit of a chore. Their house was always so boring. In my experience old folk generally dont have much stimulation. Maybe everyone was much more frugal after living through the wars. The device is an electronic map which folds out like a real map. One of the halves is a big flashing alert light which is supposed to notify the grandparents when their grand children are near by. Once the map is opened fully a screen is evident which shows where the grand kids are and below it are pre set messages that the oldies can send to their grand children. The map device is meant to be stored next to the old fashion styled internet enabled phone.

The map device is pictured below.

For me task 2 was dealing with showing affection through a device. There were the obvious ideas of having teddy bears that become warm, hug back, release a scent etc. The same could be done with a pillow. However by far the most interesting idea was the sex toys. A fleshlight for men and vibrators for women. Accelerometers could be attached to each with some kind of wireless transmission device. When more movement is sensed the vibrations become more intense and the fleshlight would also get tighter. This is certainly a candidate for the initial concept presentation.

I would like to go forward with this idea but i really don't have the "balls" to present it. It would be one of thoes things that could be really good or just not work at all. If it did go down well it would just be the novelty of the idea which would pull it through and i that jut wouldn't be a satisfying mark.  I think ill keep this idea and might make one in the future if i grow the "balls" necessary.

This third concept was also pretty generic. The theory for the first idea is that if someone is doing something exciting then their heart rate increases. So if a heart rate monitor could also talk to an iphone it could detect when someone is doing something exciting and possibly check people in at an exciting location.

The second idea was to have an actions per minute meter. This is similar to what video games have. In computer games, an action is when a button is clicked. So the more actions per minute generally means the more intense the person is playing the game. In the real world actions could be measured through some sort of brain activity measuring device. The more brain activity, the more more exciting the activity. and this could also be put through the internet and shown to friends etc.


Im still working on the projector which was mentioned in my first post. I tend to think of ideas and build on them over time. It has taken some form I guess. The main idea I want to show with these sketches is the series of sensors. I was thinking if you put sensors in a row then horizontal movement could easily be detected. That final massive circle on the right is the image projector.

Exploration

Im thinking about this projector idea mentioned in the first post.

These sketches dont tell you much i guess apart form that the projector is going to have some small sensors (the small circles) and may even have a folding out section (that little rectangle below the larger perspective square) I guess this gives a little detail to how I work. I hate showing form too early as form should be derived from function and I am yet to figure out the function. So normally i end up drawing what the object would look like basically

Taking Apart the ipod mini. Exploration Task

 This is a 4gb 1st generation silver Apple ipod mini. I bought it in about 2004. I used it for many years and in about 2007 I replaced the "irreplaceable" battery. The new battery worked very well until about 2009 when the battery exploded which pushed out from the inside and broke the LCD screen from the pressure. In 2007 I was able to open the ipod seamlessly, however since the exploded battery made an evident bouldge to the ipod case, i had to break open the case this time as there was no movement at all to slide it. The Ipod mini case is a very thin 1mm or less aluminum extrusion.

 The components inside the ipod are the white click wheel centre. the small 4gb microdrive HDD to the left. above the HDD is the battery. And to the right is the screen attached to the chipset.

 I thought it was interesting that the Micro drive was wrapped in a silicone skin. This presumably is to stop skipping in the hard drive, as it is a mechanical storage device that uses a physical spinning disk it is obsolete technology now that solidstate flash storage is prevalent. Note: while using the ipod I never noticed any skipping.

 Microdrive without its silicone skin.

 The HDD was connected to the motherboard through copper wires at the top of the device

 The clickwheel is merely a series of buttons as well as the touch control surface which i believe to be a circuit that is closed by contact of the skin.

 This look like serial ports that transferred data throggh the ipod.

 This is the hard drive controller. Cache and other features would be located on this board

 The Hard drive had to be broken open as it was sealed using three star screws. the microdrive is exactly the same as a normal hard drive but just scaled down.

I believe this to be one of the most complex parts of the HDD as its is the smallest manufacturing miniturisation I have ever seen.

LifeTec

 I design plumbing products at a brisbane based manufacturing company at part time work. I have had some recent projects there designing toilets for disabled people. One of the criteria is that now public toilets must have a backrest on them. I was developing backrests to add onto the company's range. Lifetec also stocked some of our products at their center. One trouble im having at the moment with disabled standards is that it is obvious that Caroma works in partnership with the people who make the standards. The standards are incredibly hard to adhere to and are very much suited to the ceramic material that Caroma uses.

 this is a good image on how i will design my next disabled sink.

 Light switches such as these wold be ideal for use in any home and would make turning on the lights easier for anyone.

The company I work for makes many products such as this stainless steel in wall cistern.

 So many devices on one toilet!

 At the moment I am developing a toilet seat that raises with a spring hinge so that people do no pee on it.

 I thought this was cool is it was a mouse and the tracking area was a sliding bar.

Im going to get these clippers for my mothers birthday. they were incredibly easy to use!