So for this project , I decided to continue with the idea of smell. But my goal is to built it this time!
I made another sketch to explain what I initially wanted to do. And I also explain in more details the technologies I am going to use.
This is how my project would work : Take one for you and give one to your partner. You would exchange scents that are important , memorable to you(Like for example , your perfume ). So when you would want to send a scent to your partner you would press the button on the box.
Here are two ways it could happen:
1-So here is the cool thing: It would be set to send a tweet to the person you mention @ . It would also create a hashtag #(e.g.:# smell) Then when the other box read the hashtag , it would activate the smell. The smell is activated using a mini system blower. That would turn on and off. So this process could work anywhere!
Here is the sketch I made.
2-After a lot of thinking , I decided that it would be cool if the user receives a note.(e.g: thinking of you) and the smell. Like in the old days. When we use to perfume the letters that we would send by mail.
So why not recreate a new way to send an email?
I talked about this in the last class, It would be cool to pull to send an email. I was inspired by all these words, sentences that we use online like : drop me a line, pull to refresh etc..
So one person would pull to send the message ( it would be a default message ). When the other person receives message via email , the smell would be activated as a notification.
So the trick is just to connect processing and email and create a serial communication using a pressure sensor ( (for the pull action).
Here is another sketch
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