Hi we are Ellie, Maya, and Zahava, and our Maker Faire Project was to make a chibitronics flower. We wanted to do this project to teach people about interactive art. Art is not just looking at paintings that are by famous artists, it can be in many other unexpected styles as well. Our inspiration for this project, was a short video Ms.Mytko showed us of an interactive flower painting. We all liked the idea and decided to do something similar to it. At first we started with the templates in a directions book. Once we figured out what effects we needed, we tried making our own circuits, many of them did not work, we do not know why. We kept redesigning them, until eventually most of them worked. We were making a microcontroller circuit with a template, and we kept putting the the battery in, but it would never work. Eventually we got so desperate, that we just started pushing on random places, then suddenly for a second the lights lit up! We didn’t know what we did to get them to light up, so this time we pushed on things again, but slowly and strategically. This made us realize that we might not be able to get all of the details from our original design in, so we made our first step with the major part of the project.
We learned from this project that you just have to keep trying and persevering until you get it right. Even if something doesn’t work at first, that doesn’t mean that it won’t work at all. We also learned that it helps a lot to break things down and to start with the essential parts of the project, so if it doesn’t work, you aren’t stuck with something that will make the project seem unfinished. If we had more time, we probably would have tried to finish the part of the project with the sensors so that it was more interactive. We were originally going to use a sensor so that if you blew on the sensor, it would make the lights light up in a way that made it look like scattering dandelion seeds. But we ended up not having enough time to figure out how to do it, so we stuck with the basic plan. Some advice for other people doing chibitronics: definitely don’t give up, because there are many small errors that can happen that you have to watch out for. Another tip is to have a backup plan in case your original plan doesn’t work, which is likely to happen. Chibitronics doesn’t always work out the way you think it will, so it’s good to have something else to resort to if it doesn’t work out how you thought it would.We had to do many tries to get our project to work. We never knew what would happen. We didn't have to buy anything for our project we used what was we had in the science room. This project taught us so much and we are so happy we did it, it was such a good experience and even though we didn’t get the original plan we wanted to, we got something out of it.
We learned from this project that you just have to keep trying and persevering until you get it right. Even if something doesn’t work at first, that doesn’t mean that it won’t work at all. We also learned that it helps a lot to break things down and to start with the essential parts of the project, so if it doesn’t work, you aren’t stuck with something that will make the project seem unfinished. If we had more time, we probably would have tried to finish the part of the project with the sensors so that it was more interactive. We were originally going to use a sensor so that if you blew on the sensor, it would make the lights light up in a way that made it look like scattering dandelion seeds. But we ended up not having enough time to figure out how to do it, so we stuck with the basic plan. Some advice for other people doing chibitronics: definitely don’t give up, because there are many small errors that can happen that you have to watch out for. Another tip is to have a backup plan in case your original plan doesn’t work, which is likely to happen. Chibitronics doesn’t always work out the way you think it will, so it’s good to have something else to resort to if it doesn’t work out how you thought it would.We had to do many tries to get our project to work. We never knew what would happen. We didn't have to buy anything for our project we used what was we had in the science room. This project taught us so much and we are so happy we did it, it was such a good experience and even though we didn’t get the original plan we wanted to, we got something out of it.
Sketchbook $10
Circuit Stickers (White) Classroom $110.00
Circuit Stickers Effects Add-On $20.00
Chibi Stencil $5.00
Copper Tape $8.00
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