So finally, I have a new board completed, camouflaged and tested — and so far all to a very pleasing end.
This one has a few advancements over the one I finished last semester. First and foremost, it’s much cleaner and better laid out, and secondly it has pots to control the sensitivity of the distance sensor and the volume of the speaker output. Those right there make a big difference in terms of stability and deployment.
The board design and layout is worlds cleaner than the last one, as evidenced above, and has so far worked 100% faithfully (also an advancement of the prior prototype). So far it’s been living in a coffee cup, and it looks pretty sneaky:
It’s been good out in the wild as well. It’s easy to go install, because it looks like a coffee cup as long as nobody sees the sensor, and if you keep your thumb over the sensor, it won’t chirp anyway, so it’s easy to be sneaky. Louder than I thought it might be, too — a really solid version so far, I think.
And closer-up, indoors footage:
More on the other two (or maybe one, at this point — I’m not sure I’ll be able to fit five in the space I have at Conflux) as progress is made!
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