Well, my initial idea was to make a glove trigger so that when you clench your fists, something will switch on. So I just connected the motor that was given in our sparkfun kit to the redboard and switched it on. It wasn’t staying still for the movement, so I put two regiform pieces on the side of it to keep it stable. Switching it on, I then realized what a good massager this was. Playing with it for a while, I changed my idea from an, “Iron Man” type glove trigger to a back massager. This is what my initial prototype looked like:
The hanger would aid in keeping it stable on the chair like this:
I had to find a way to cover the motor so that people don’t get their backs drilled instead of massaged so I did this:
Here’s a video to demonstrate the amount of vibration it makes.
I needed a method to make it switch on when someone lied on their back in the chair so I made this with some foil that connected the wires to the motor:
And now, the final product on the chair: