Post-Presentation II

Today, we presented our choker project for the second time. We modified it according to Greg’s main concern after the first presentation of our project: that it sped up and slowed down too quickly and erratically. Thus, we decided to change the purpose of our project entirely; instead of having the choker help relieve the wearer’s stress, it helped add to it.

Changing the idea behind it led to us making a choker that functioned as an alarm system. The choker gives off radio static, which gets louder if the wearer is stationary/immobile, and says to 'wake up, wake up!'. The static will remain loud until the wearer chooses to do something about the volume and bob their head to 'wake' themselves up; this prompts the 'congratulations, you're awake!' statement from the choker.

Although we could not incorporate the suggestions in my previous post of finding a larger choker (we shopped everywhere and not a larger one in sight), using more sensors (only one sensor was to be used for this assignment, a continuation of the last) and of "talking" to the machine (this did not apply to revamping our previous project, either) we managed to put together a piece that definitely improved on its predecessor.

Here are some images of our project in action:

A close-up shot of our project. The wires were cleverly hidden in Stephen's pocket. (top image)


Stephen demo-ing our piece. (bottom image)