Medusa Video

Attached to Medusa's tentacles are various devises designed to create a mobile system that expands. In addition to this, these devices have graphite attached to them to map out the movement. During reviews one of the criticism in regards to my devices was that there is a need to feedback information from the device back to the processing unit. With this being said my new direction is to start using ardweno as a means of interpreting responses.

Bicycle

Initially when i was designing the bicycle I was thinking of a system that used lots of gears that required multiple gears. In the end I decided to simply the design. The bicycle design runs on 4.5 volts, anything more would cause the bicycle to turn over on its back side.

Suspended Manifold

The new manifold was designed to use parts of the previous one. With the new manifold I would be able to have Medusa expand in space when lowered and contract when elevated. Unfortunately my time was consumed with developing the motor attachments to figure out a way of doing this electronically.

Other requirements for the new manifold was to contain all of the circuitry, as a way of protecting them from the high traffic area. This being said I also decided to move my circuits from the prototyping board and onto a solider bread board to prevent the lose connection problem that I encountered in Montreal.

Propeller Device

The design of the propeller took a few attempts because there was issues of weight, power and drag. Some of the bugs have been sorted out but the device isn't as mobile as I would like. When incorporating this devise in the circuit I had to isolate this motor along with a few others onto a 12V power source rather then 7V.