Surveillance Bot
This project was the solution to a brief which asked that we create a 10x10x10cm box which would respond to an input and give a human reaction. For example if you tickled it, it
would laugh. This was a collaborativeproject. I worked with Kloee Alcorn. We wanted our project to be more than just the standard response and were both very interested in critical design. We decided to make our box a criticism of our surveillance society. We decided to make a camera from our box and considered how a human would behave if he/she had to watchstrangers 24/7. We thought that they would become bored and start criticising people for the way they looked. So, we used a PIR sensor, a bright LED and an lcd screen. I wrote the code for this and created a char array to pre-programme responses. I set it to randomly display one of the responses when the PIR read high. Meaning that each time someone walked passed, the screen would show a response. This was positioned at the back of the box, and was mirrored to mimic the human condition to hide our thoughts and opinions. This project was achieved using arduino.
