Interactive Insect
One thing that I’ve always liked about technology is that it has the ability to react to different stimuli. Be it an infrared beam of light from a remote that turns on a television, the dropping temperature in a home that turns on a furnace, or the different pressure placed on a bathroom scale that is translated into the weight of the user. So, when I say this little critter, I thought, “Hey, this would be a really neat little project for the kids on a rainy day!”
The Blinkybug is a neat little project that shows how electronic systems can interact with their environment. The “eyes” blink whenever it detects a change in the environment. There isn’t any really complicated circuitry and the hardest part of the entire project is getting the antennae set up just right.
The principle of this project is straight forward. When something in the environment causes the antennae to move, it makes the “eyes” blink. This can mean something touches them or a breeze moves them, or a temperature change causes them to expand or contract. A neat way to “read” the environment and learn some basics of electronics and sensor creation.
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