As computing becomes more ubiquitous in our objects, designers need to be more aware of how to design meaningful interactions into electronically enhanced objects. At the University of Washington, a class of junior Interaction Design majors is exploring this question. These pages chronicle their efforts.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (Study Party Lamp)| Angelica and Emily


The study party lamp is a lamp that recognizes voice commands and will play music and lights to bring productivity and fun to your study parties! From soldering, coding, and constructing the lamp together; it was definitely a fun and rather difficult project. We laser cut circles to build an interior structure that would hold the neopixels and arduino. Then we drilled holes on top of the lamp to connect the support structure. The support was initially held together with fish wires; however we decided to use a more sturdy wire. We ran into problems with the structure of the lamp because it caused echos; therefore we decided to rerecord the voice commands inside of the lamp to ensure that the easy vr shield would pick up the voice commands. Also, we decided to input a beep after the trigger word to alert the user that they can proceed with the next voice command to turn on the lamp.
Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/130364599 

We decided to make two boards when the lamp is used when studying and partying! 










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