Fab Lab Session

Yesterday we attended the 'Intro to Electronics and Breadboarding' at Fab Lab. We went over the basic circuits that we could make, and were given a small task of making an LED light turn on using the breadboard, and arduino.

After this, we were able to practice on how to make our own idea, which was the buzzing alarm clock. For this, we were looking at using a reed switch, so that the buzzer would be set of when the circuit was moved away from the magnet. We created the circuit, as shown in the photo at the bottom of this blogpost, although the Fab Lab laptop was playing up and didn't seem to process the code, and there wasn't enough time left in the workshop to restart it and try again.

However, we are going to look at putting the circuit and buzzer inside of the alarm clock itself, rather than the ball. That way, the sound will be closer to the person sleeping, as the sound would appear quieter if the noise was in the ball instead, as it would get further away, and could possibly get stuck under something which would muffle the noise.

This circuit acts as almost a 'proof of concept', showing how we are able to set up a circuit to do what we want for our haptic interaction.