The Physical Computing Final Project

Students: Stella Kim, Andrea Dulko
Title: S.W.I (Spelling While Intoxicated)...now known as SpElmo

Intention: To create a jestful way of helping consumers of alcohol diminish black outs and unconsciousness due to overconsumption; creating self awareness and a signal for others when enough is enough, helping to prolong fun and enjoyment.

The Project:(pictures coming soon...it'll be easier to visualize and understand)
We are creating a one player spelling bee game where a big plant will vomit your drink into your cup depending on how many questions you get right in one minute. There will be 4 possible results depending on your percentage of correct answers in the given time. The player can not move onto the next word until the current word is spelled correctly. If you get x amount of questions right your winning drink will be, from lowest to highest(percentage of alcohol) Water, Beer, Vodka, or Whiskey respectively. The user will be provided with a small keypad where they can push the correct letters. The word will be spoken through a piezo and there will also be a sound that lets the player know that they have spelled incorrectly.


Aim and Arguments: We hope that the game will help users regulate their drinking and hopefully display the effects of alcohol on their brain functions in an engaging way to not only the user but to others around them. We hope that by supplying water when the user results in a low score will aid in sobering up by hydrating and/or diminishing hangovers. We also hope that the game will alert the player and/or friends around them that they have reached their alcohol consumption limit.

User Testing: We hope to set the game up in an open space(where everyone is of course legally of drinking age)and set up a video camera to watch and show how people interact with the game at different states of drunkenness as they continue to play and how others around them react/interact.

For the final outcome please goto Sausages on the right and click on SpElmo. Thank you!

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A lot of Labs: Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6

First...i must apologise. For some odd reason i thought i had put these labs up on my blog. I just checked and i haven't. Narf. So in this blog i show 3 video clips. One is controlling a motor. It was relatively easy although in the beginning i sort of got my wires crossed and so my motor didn't work properly. It was also my first time using my force sensor and it was great fun to see my motor go. The second video is of me dimming my lights on and off. It doesn't seem very exciting but it was exciting to me! I didn't have any trouble with this lab so yay! The third video is probably the coolest. We went into processing and started controlling visuals on the computer screen. You have to look closely at the computer screen in the video and you'll notice a ball moving. Hopefully you can see me playing with some sensors to be making that ball move. I hope you enjoy the videos! Cheers.

The motor lab was a bit of a pickle. Somehow my H-Bridge broke. I got my motor to work without the H-Bridge by just plugging it into power but then something started smelling so i stopped doing that. I went through about 3 H-Bridges which kind of sucks because now I owe people H-Bridges, so that's kind of a bummer. I put this mouse i had, which was originally a windup toy that i gutted, on top of the motor and it just drove around. It was funny.



Lab Week 5:Serial Output and Talking to Processing

i had a lot of trouble with this lab because i thought using terminal was essential when it really wasn't. Once i was told that i didn't need terminal for my gear to work it went pretty smoothly from there. It was so much fun watching the ball move on the screen using my switches and force sensors and etc. Sick.


Lab Week 4:Servo/Analog Out

I didn't have that much trouble with the analog out lab. There was something wrong with my servomotor but i switched it with someone elses and it worked perfectly fine. It was my first time using my force sensor i think so it was pretty cool.


Lab Week 3:Analog In

Fairly straight forward and simple. I made my led's blink slower and faster, on and off, going back from each other. It's very satisfying.

A Solo Attempt at GarageBand

mmm...cheeezy