After some previous testings I did finish the final Version of How was you day, darling? - or shorter “hwydd”:
It is a small object (actually half a ping pong ball), interacting with its owner and environment (and beeing pretty boring without interaction). The object permanently aggregates light samples (i.e. it measures the every second and stores the average every some seconds). If you take it into your hand it notices the raise in temperature and tells you how it experienced the day (i.e. playing back the light levels of the day in time lapse). It is much more complicated to describe than just to watch the video (after the break).
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How was your day, darling?
How was your day: The first prototype
After the first idea was born a project name and prototype was created:
First prototype of "How was your day darling?"
The project name “How was your day, darling?” or shortly “hwydd” refers to the interaction of the device. After you come home you take it in your hand and the device tells you how its day has been. A neat little reactive device.
As you can see the whole project fits into half a ping-pong ball.
Tinkering with ADJD-S371-Q999
The ADJD breakout board by Sparkfun
The initial idea of “How was your day, darling” was to record the colors for a day. You know a morning is golden, evening is reddish, thunderstorm is greenish and so on. Measuring this with a simple RGB LED is a brave approach - but hard and cumbersome. So I ordered an ADJD-S371-Q999 color sensor breakout board from Sparkfun and played around with it.
Finding resource on this chip is very hard and getting it really working is much harder. Dealing with this complex topic is much more difficult than I thought. So I prepared some arduino code to get you started (after the break).
