My original plan for my summative circuit project.

 

My original idea was an interactive mural where when you touch the left nostril of the pig, the crown lights up and when you touch the right nostril, a sound effect would play from the CPX.  The LED lights on the crown would be the small blue bulb ones, similar to the one I used on my last project. The CPX would be attached to the back and would be attached to a battery pack. My plan was simple and didn’t require lots of additional materials.

 

However, I had to change my pathway of the conductive thread on my actual project as I drew the pieces inverted. But that wasn’t a serious problem as I already had a  general idea about where the thread was going to go. This is what I ended up doing:

I tried my best to make sure that the ground (negative) and the pin (positive) would not touch each other as to not interfere with the electricity and ended up making them as far apart as I could.

My second problem was that in my original plan, my LED lights would have to go through three layers of felt but I soon realized that it would be difficult to get the LED legs through so I improvised and decided to cut the base of the pig’s face out so my LED would only have to go through two layers of felt.

MY DESIGN PROCESS:

 

Step 1.) cut all the felt pieces out

Step 2.) sew everything together with decorative thread

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3.) sew the CPX on

Step 4.) sew LED lights on with conductive thread

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5.) sew the conductive thread to the conductive tape

Step 6.) code the CPX and plug it in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through this circuit project, I learned that there are actually lots of things you could do using a CPX by programming it.  I always thought that coding was a complicated thing that hackers did but turns out it’s not that hard to learn. Although I only know the basics of the CPX coding language, it’s been really fun to explore it and experiment with it. I can definitely see myself doing projects similar to this in the future. A really interesting project that I would love to do is the https://www.instructables.com/Rocket-Planter/ rocket planter thing that lights up.

 

MY FINAL PRODUCT:

An ANGRY BIRD pig that gets mad when u touch his right nostril and lights up when u touch his left nostril (the video is inverted)

:)) Have a nice day