🤖🔊🎶 Michael! Thank you so much for the fun and insightful lesson. I'm up late working hard on my procrastination instead of doing the Arduino coding I should be doing for a fun project I'm working on. Even with the surprisingly adept Claude AI at my side with his rapidly improving 0-shot capabilities, I decided to take a break and discovered your video. I'm honored to be the first to comment. -I too was thinking of fun ways to create more emotion and live-reactive feedback, as it gives 'life' to a project. What ended up creating the most eerily convincing sense of simple circuits and code being 'alive' was adding a simple Cds cell that very actively could be used to create large fluctuations in real-time of the proportional factor by dialing in some math that would exponentially vary it by the rate of change in localized light conditions at the Cds cell. ... For example, just approaching was enough to cause a varied output, and picking it up or tossing it in the air made it create such a response that you'd swear it was self-aware! 😂😂😂 -The cool thing is that the rate of change (in light) accurately reflects the response of any cautious little creature. More abrupt movements create a greater response, while slower movements create a seemingly calming response. -The only other quick idea is creating a running value in a volatile variable that gets averaged out over a longer period, say a running average of the last 10 rates of change (in light readings, or accelerometer, etc.) values taken once every second. This would be the equivalent of the overall 'excitement' level that could be used to trigger more or less 'vocalizations' or activity proportionally. So it adds even more of seemingly 'real' emotion to slowly calm down as well! How fun, let me know if there's anything I can do to help, or if you'd like to help me with some of these really fun projects 😀👍 -Btw, love your site! Totally cool throwback style!!! Alright, back to interfacing my brainwaves with Arduino...Literally! -Jay
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🤖🔊🎶 Michael! Thank you so much for the fun and insightful lesson. I'm up late working hard on my procrastination instead of doing the Arduino coding I should be doing for a fun project I'm working on. Even with the surprisingly adept Claude AI at my side with his rapidly improving 0-shot capabilities, I decided to take a break and discovered your video. I'm honored to be the first to comment.
-I too was thinking of fun ways to create more emotion and live-reactive feedback, as it gives 'life' to a project. What ended up creating the most eerily convincing sense of simple circuits and code being 'alive' was adding a simple Cds cell that very actively could be used to create large fluctuations in real-time of the proportional factor by dialing in some math that would exponentially vary it by the rate of change in localized light conditions at the Cds cell. ... For example, just approaching was enough to cause a varied output, and picking it up or tossing it in the air made it create such a response that you'd swear it was self-aware! 😂😂😂
-The cool thing is that the rate of change (in light) accurately reflects the response of any cautious little creature. More abrupt movements create a greater response, while slower movements create a seemingly calming response.
-The only other quick idea is creating a running value in a volatile variable that gets averaged out over a longer period, say a running average of the last 10 rates of change (in light readings, or accelerometer, etc.) values taken once every second. This would be the equivalent of the overall 'excitement' level that could be used to trigger more or less 'vocalizations' or activity proportionally. So it adds even more of seemingly 'real' emotion to slowly calm down as well! How fun, let me know if there's anything I can do to help, or if you'd like to help me with some of these really fun projects 😀👍
-Btw, love your site! Totally cool throwback style!!! Alright, back to interfacing my brainwaves with Arduino...Literally! -Jay
Glad it got the wheels spinning. Good thoughts!