This repo is intended as a portfolio for my work in Barnard COMS 3930 Creative Embedded Systems class. This class focused on using microcontrollers (specifically TTGO T1) to create artistic pieces.
This project was intended as an introduction to microcontrollers, Arduino IDE and embedded systems/design. I decided to display on the microcontroller the most commonly used words in the English Language in a randomized order with the font size representing the frequency of use (i.e. the larger the word the more often it used).
This project in addition to utilizing the TTGO T1 used a joy-stick and button. I took advantage of the fact web-browsers can listen for serial input on ports using javascript and created a basic website to display the input. With limited ability to create larger scenes in HTML/JS I decided to create a simple quiz/trivia game that the user can choose from 1 of 4 topics for.
This project was inspiried by the Rock-em-sock-em kids game. Rock-em-sock-em has so many moving pieces, I thought it would be impractical to create a motorized version of it. Instead I wanted to build something with the same amount of drama it represented. At summer camp we would have a camp wide tournament at the end of the summer with one of the main activities being a Tug-Of-War game. It was one of my favorite activities and to us it had the same amount of drama and tension as a WWE fight, if not more. It meant winning or losing the entire summer. Using motors, buttons, and gears to “pull” the string towards a player, to win the game.