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• This project sucks!

  Alex Rich • 03/05/2016 at 19:32 • 6 comments

  My kids have grown out of this and frankly it never did much for them. I love the idea, but my implementation was terrible.

  If you want to do something worthwhile, follow Matthias Wandel's project, he's a damn genius:

  
  

• Random Shaking

  Alex Rich • 03/10/2015 at 23:38 • 0 comments

  Just wrote some code to randomize vibrate amplitude, duration and delay between vibrations. This works really well for keeping my human subjects guessing. Also shows that if you can write a little code the accelerometer "record" feature is not completely necessary.

• It works, but

  Alex Rich • 03/08/2015 at 17:02 • 0 comments

  The motor I chose has a hefty weight and can only change speed so fast, especially because it has a large off-center mass attached to it creating quite a bit of rotational inertia. It obviously will never reproduce the exact motion you "record" but it does at least output a random pattern of buzzing, which in itself is cool.

  Some ideas for improvements:

  • bank of motors ranging in size, the large ones would be able to capture lower frequencies, smaller would capture higher frequencies.
  • weighted solenoid for "jolts" not attainable with rotary motors
  • instead of just changing motor voltage, write code to slam the motor on then reverse voltage and stop it as quickly as possible. This would give more of a "thump" feel.

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