RotaSenso: Feel the presence of someone afar. A connected rotary device that mirrors emotions and gestures in real-time. 🔄💙 #Valentines
This project is a very humble tribute to a mania, a trend I’ve seen in the Iot-verse since its beginning. #“Valentines”
A Little Bit of History
I think the first project going in this direction (aka connecting to enviromnments enabling the sharing of a feeling, or in this case the sleeping time was “the Good Night Lamp” by Alexandra Des-champs Sonsino
The little lamps used to have cellular connection: I’m not sure it’ still so.
We did something similar in Casa Jasmina: the EmojiLamp (2017). In this case we were using Telegram APIs to control the behaviour of a Ws2812 LED Strip
Later, during the Pandemic, I’ve seen a wonderful project that still make me smile: the Yo-Yo Machines from Interaction Research Studio (2020).
In this case, you could build yourself for different devices, out of paper and glue: The Light Touch, the Speed Dial, the Knock Knock and the Flutter By. they were using wifimanager as Captive Portal and Socket.IO.
Do you want to make it? You can follow the tutorial on Hackster Community or Github. Stay tuned for further evolution of the project!