1) Omnipod Installation -- I have type 1 diabetes, on an insulin pump, etc. Recently I have been looking into this newer pump called the 'Omnipod.' Basically each pod is a microcontroller, a couple gears, batteries, a needle, plastic catheter, and reservoir of insulin. You get 10 of them a month, they are controlled wirelessly by a PDM device that tells the pod how many times to move its gear to get insulin out, basically. So I was thinking of hacking into a couple pods. I was given some free ones by the sales-rep...and have already taken one apart. I'm so geeky. Anyway, I was thinking of trying to re-control it, without the PDM. Perhaps making the gear move/some kind of liquid coming out. I think I could also attach a speaker to it and make it say things like "0.5 units" or whatever. I want to bring it alive! Maybe there could be three or four on a wall, with proximity sensors, lit up by LEDS, and when someone gets close they will drip liquid.
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2)Movement Music - This would be a series of hacked musical instrument toys controlled by various proximity sensors. So, for example, if a toy piano is taken apart, different proximity sensors will be hooked up in various levels so that different movements of the body will trigger keys, making sound. A kind of invisible music matrix. I'm already working on a project where I'm hacking into musical toys, creating mat switches out of the buttons, so this could be a variation/continuation on that. Dance party on a wall?
3) Bed Bug Bot -- So bed bugs are a huge problem here in NY. They totally freak me out. After doing some research I found that bedbugs sense darkness and carbon dioxide. So I was thinking, what if there was a robot that could also sense these things? It could shine a light and circle around the bed. Maybe it would say 'don't let the bed bugs bite!'...or 'i vant to suck your blood' --- ew. It could be something like a hacked roomba....
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