Pressure Project 3

For Pressure Project 3 I decided to bring in some of my childhood enjoyments to this project. Knowing that I had to have a project that did not involve the keyboard yet had some level of technology involved I had to figure out what to do. I remember enjoying decoding things and figuring out puzzles. The technology that was involved was the Makey Makey and using a website called Scratch. The experience was where someone was to receive a piece of paper. On the paper you had four pictures with a piece of duct tape on top and three dashes below the pictures. There were two tables. One table had a group of red cups that were turned over. The other table had a computer and a Ritz cracker box with silver items protruding up from the inside of the box. When someone received their paper, they were to use the color of the duct tape at the top of the paper to correspond with the color duct tape on the cup that had a letter written on it. Then using those cups, they then had it narrowed down to a smaller number of letter choices. Then looking at the pictures they had to figure out the word and the three dashes let them know that it was a three-letter word. Once they figured out the word they were to figure out that you had to turn the cup right side up to reveal a number inside the cup. Then using the numbers, they were to go to the computer and Ritz box. On the Ritz box there were ten silver protruding sets of foil. There were three rows of three foils and one foil in the center bottom that had the message hold me written around it. The experiencer then was to hold the tenth foil and then touch the other ones in order of the numbers. Once the code was cracked they heard a cheering noise from the computer. There was also a message for the user to click the green flag when they heard their noise.

It seemed that everyone was enjoying the experience. One person said they enjoyed the tactile experience of the this project. It became one big group event and they even asked for more clues when they finished one. They eventually tried to find how to break the experience or to find out if there were any underlying similarities from the clues. They eventually found out that to make the cheering sound you had to hold the one silver prong and enter two numbers followed by the nine. If I was to do this again, I would work more triggers to where there were different sounds for series of numbers and for every last digit that was different, there was a different sound or a random sound.

As I was trying to determine how to put together this pressure project I did some research into other ideas. I ran across a video on how to use the Makey Makey and a book about different projects called 20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius. There are a lot of projects in the book that I would like to make happen yet I needed to narrow down to this specific project. The project I used was the lock box project. I did some tweaking from what the book has to make it my own. Overall, I feel that this was a successful project.