Vivian

This week, I mostly worked on the final presentation slides for our final presentation this week. I also made the breath sensor more resistant to humidity by adding some cardboard padding between the user’s mouth and the breath sensor, so hopefully less moisture gets into …

This week, I worked with Angel to cut a hole in the PVC pipe for our breath sensor. I also cut down all the wires, connected all the grounds to a common ground using wagos, and fit everything inside the controller nicely. Currently, our board …

This week I made a final breath sensor that is more accurate than the old one and is small enough to fit inside the controller. It doesn’t fit inside the tube without any holes in the PVC, but I’m looking to cut a panel in …

This week was really crazy because of Carnival, but I was still able to make good progress. I started to make a smaller breath sensor, but I still need to attach the latex to the sensor and mount it inside the controller. I worked with …

This week was a pretty productive week. I worked with Angel to cut and drill holes in the pvc to mount all the buttons. We also came up with a plan to attach the buttons to the pvc: they fit pretty snugly now, so for …

This week, the first thing I accomplished was successfully testing the gyroscope on the Arduino Nano BLE. I found out that it’s actually best for us to use the accelerometer instead of gyroscope for the degree difference from the horizontal, and I was able to …

This past week I began prototyping and testing some of our sensors. I soldered pins onto the gyroscope and soldered prototype ends to one of the buttons to test the process for the PVC controller. I also wired up 9 simple buttons (not the ones …

This past week I worked with the team to finalize our design and complete our design proposal slides. We’re sticking with a flute controller, and we found a way to sense and quantify the user’s breath control. The breath sensor consists of a LED, photodiode, …

9This past week I completed my slides for the proposal presentation and gave the proposal. From the feedback of this presentation, we decided we either need to determine a more accurate way to detect user breath or pivot to another use case. One option I …