Avateam
Communicate your status in a playful and interactive way.
Made by Mengqi Wang, Christopher Holliday, Stephen Krotseng and jfwiddifield
Created: February 3rd, 2015
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Goal
The goal of the Avateam connected intimacy device was to allow two people to display their statuses to each other in a way that is fun to interactive, but not too obtrusive in everyday life. The device allows the partners to display three states: available (standing), busy (sitting), and asleep (laying down). The current position of your avatar is displayed on the right of the figurine using a simple RGB led interface, with green meaning available, red meaning busy, and purple meaning asleep. The current position of your partners avatar is displayed on the left of the figurine using the same logic.
Function
To enable the interaction between the two devices, we used two sets of infrared beam break sensors. The sensors were positioned so that when the figurine was in the seated position, it would only break the first set of sensors, and when it was in the laying position it would break both sets of sensors. Clearly, when the figurine is standing up, it doesn't break either of the sensor beams.
int legPin = A0;
int headPin = A1;
int redPin = A4;
int greenPin = D0;
int bluePin = D1;
int myredPin = A5;
int mygreenPin = A6;
int mybluePin = A7;
int legbeam;
int headbeam;
int avatarState;
void setup()
{
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(bluePin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(myredPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(mygreenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(mybluePin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(legPin, INPUT);
pinMode(headPin, INPUT);
Spark.variable("legbeam", &legbeam, INT);
Spark.variable("headbeam", &headbeam, INT);
Spark.subscribe("StephenKrotseng", handlePositionChange );
}
void loop()
{
//delay( 1000 );
legbeam = analogRead(legPin);
headbeam = analogRead(headPin);
//avatarState = 0;
// State variable key
// sit = 1
// lay = 2
// stand = 3
if (legbeam>100 && headbeam<100 && avatarState != 1)
{
// Red
announceSit();
avatarState = 1;
}else if (legbeam>100 && headbeam>100 && avatarState != 2)
{
// Red + Blue
announceLay();
avatarState = 2;
}else if (legbeam<100 && headbeam<100 && avatarState != 3)
{
// Green
announceStand();
avatarState = 3;
}
delay(2500);
}
void announceSit()
{
Spark.publish("ChrisHolliday", "SIT", 60, PUBLIC);
// Set to red
analogWrite(myredPin, 0);
analogWrite(mybluePin, 255);
analogWrite(mygreenPin, 255);
}
void announceLay()
{
Spark.publish("ChrisHolliday", "LAY", 60, PUBLIC);
// Set to purple
analogWrite(myredPin, 0);
analogWrite(mybluePin, 0);
analogWrite(mygreenPin, 255);
}
void announceStand()
{
Spark.publish("ChrisHolliday", "STAND", 60, PUBLIC);
// Set to green
analogWrite(myredPin, 255);
analogWrite(mybluePin, 255);
analogWrite(mygreenPin, 0);
}
void handlePositionChange( const char * event, const char *data )
{
if( strcmp( data, "SIT" ) == 0 ){
RGBSIT();
return;
}
if( strcmp( data, "LAY" ) == 0 ){
RGBLAY();
return;
}
if( strcmp( data, "STAND" ) == 0 ){
RGBSTAND();
return;
}
}
void RGBSIT()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 0);
analogWrite(bluePin, 255);
analogWrite(greenPin, 255);
}
void RGBLAY()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 0);
analogWrite(bluePin, 0);
analogWrite(greenPin, 255);
}
void RGBSTAND()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 255);
analogWrite(bluePin, 255);
analogWrite(greenPin, 0);
}int legPin = A0;
int headPin = A1;
int redPin = A4;
int greenPin = D0;
int bluePin = D1;
int myredPin = A5;
int mygreenPin = A6;
int mybluePin = A7;
int legbeam;
int headbeam;
int avatarState;
void setup()
{
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(bluePin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(myredPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(mygreenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(mybluePin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(legPin, INPUT);
pinMode(headPin, INPUT);
Spark.variable("legbeam", &legbeam, INT);
Spark.variable("headbeam", &headbeam, INT);
Spark.subscribe("ChrisHolliday", handlePositionChange );
}
void loop()
{
//delay( 1000 );
legbeam = analogRead(legPin);
headbeam = analogRead(headPin);
//avatarState = 0;
// State variable key
// sit = 1
// lay = 2
// stand = 3
if (legbeam>100 && headbeam<100 && avatarState != 1)
{
// Red
announceSit();
avatarState = 1;
}else if (legbeam>100 && headbeam>100 && avatarState != 2)
{
// Red + Blue
announceLay();
avatarState = 2;
}else if (legbeam<100 && headbeam<100 && avatarState != 3)
{
// Green
announceStand();
avatarState = 3;
}
delay(2500);
}
void announceSit()
{
Spark.publish("StephenKrotseng", "SIT", 60, PUBLIC);
// Set to red
analogWrite(myredPin, 0);
analogWrite(mybluePin, 255);
analogWrite(mygreenPin, 255);
}
void announceLay()
{
Spark.publish("StephenKrotseng", "LAY", 60, PUBLIC);
// Set to purple
analogWrite(myredPin, 0);
analogWrite(mybluePin, 0);
analogWrite(mygreenPin, 255);
}
void announceStand()
{
Spark.publish("StephenKrotseng", "STAND", 60, PUBLIC);
// Set to green
analogWrite(myredPin, 255);
analogWrite(mybluePin, 255);
analogWrite(mygreenPin, 0);
}
void handlePositionChange( const char * event, const char *data )
{
if( strcmp( data, "SIT" ) == 0 ){
RGBSIT();
return;
}
if( strcmp( data, "LAY" ) == 0 ){
RGBLAY();
return;
}
if( strcmp( data, "STAND" ) == 0 ){
RGBSTAND();
return;
}
}
void RGBSIT()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 0);
analogWrite(bluePin, 255);
analogWrite(greenPin, 255);
}
void RGBLAY()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 0);
analogWrite(bluePin, 0);
analogWrite(greenPin, 255);
}
void RGBSTAND()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 255);
analogWrite(bluePin, 255);
analogWrite(greenPin, 0);
}
Challenges Encountered
The most difficult aspect of this project was getting the two cores to communicate to one another consistently. We had many iterations of our code, each one trying to bring us closer to consistency. Unfortunately, even our final code is a bit buggy. Throughout the process, our devices would work, and then stopped working with no indication of why. We also encountered some issues making our circuits fit into our box designs, which caused to improvise.