We can make it feel emotion … Hug or slug

This was an idea we had a few months back for our agency website that didn’t make it out of the workshop. What if we could measure the mood of the whole company and display it graphically? An interesting study into the highs and lows of the day-to-day, and if it effected the mood of the staff. Working late nights on a pitch, grizzly and snappy. Win a pitch, the mood is lifted, well, that was the theory anyhoo.

First we took an Arduino board (above) and attached it to a sensor. This clever little thing takes a physical (or analogue) signal and turns it digital so a computer can read it. At this point we were working small scale and needed the help of someone small. Step up Chris Kowalski, a willing home brew electrician. Chris is often tinkering in his cubbyhole late at night.

*UPDATE* It works! The 01010100100000010010001010 on Chris’ screen means 1 when we touch the sensor, 0 when it’s idle. Next we need to build something a little larger. Anybody have a mannequin we could borrow?