Creative Coding Week 9

For this week of creative coding, to make something meaningful with what I've learned, I made an alert LED for when a user uses bad practices at their desk. Carpal tunnel is a pretty bad issue these days as more and more people are spending so much time at their desks. It's not too healthy for people to put a bunch of pressure on their wrists since there are some delicate things going on there. So for good posture with a mouse of keyboard, it's important to not lean on your wrists.

So I started by following the arduino setup sets and setup my bread board with the right setup too, I also tried putting some extra LEDs on it with a parallel setup which seemes to work. The red is a little more powerful than the yellow or green so it might not be as obvious.

Next I wanted to try out some sort of springy setup for a pad like what was talked about in class.

For that I used a package with bubble wrap built in, and layered it with some cutouts for the aluminum to touch.

Worked out pretty well, I think I just need some longer wires and some bigger LEDs to really alarm someone, maybe some loud noises to just to really enforce that good posture.

I was thinking this would work pretty well for when someone is feel a little sleepy during those long webcam meetings.

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while (!deck.isInOrder()) { print 'Iteration ' + i; deck.shuffle(); i++; } print 'It took ' + i + ' iterations to sort the deck.';