Finals week photo dump

User Testing Takeaway

• sturdier base so people won’t knock it over easily
• some people wanted to use it like an instrument
• better feedback—”oh, if I touch it longer, it plays this noise, if less, then this happens”
• inconsistency with DC motor
  • try using a transistor instead of an H-bridge
  • no-gear DC motor instead of right-angle?
  • calculate current
• have a BACKUP to play what ASMR noises are created in case DC motor fails, rather than random brown noise
• rebuild tufting frame, smaller
• fix loop-pile height
• try ASMR noises with wood plank

ASMR Motor & Sensor

My motor wasn’t working so I tried a couple of things:

1. picking out some plastic part that broke and fell into the copper area of the motor,
2. changing out the capacitors I have (I switched around from 2 47microfarad caps to adding and taking out ~30microfarads more
3. switching out the breadboard for a bigger one,
4. switching out all the wires
5. manually turning the pedals on the motor (**this worked the best :’)