For this week’s project, I was brainstorming the possible human motions that I could create using a motor. (Also, I didn’t use a DC motor for my final project because I thought that using a servo counted as using a motor oops).
While brainstorming, everytime me and a friend would come up with an idea, we would high-five each other. The ideas would end up not working, mainly due to technical reasons and because I would then look back and be like “nah I don’t like it anymore”. After a while, it hit me that a high-five would be a great human motion, used in everyday life, that could easily be replicated.
I simply cut out a hand shape from styrofoam, glued it onto a cardboard piece, and attached it to a servo that was then attached to wood for stability.
As for the coding, all I did was adjust the angle of the servo’s movement so that it would go back and forth consistently.
Looking back, it would’ve been really cool to add some sort of button, like a photocell, that would detect when someone was moving in for a high-five, and then trigger the movement.