Project 1-Dunce Hat

Technical Desciption

Samory Forster

The Project is called the dunce hat. As I began trying to understand the Arduino make code, and circuit playground express, the more discouraged I felt. I thought of a concept. The idea of playfully subjecting us students to one of our worst fears: humiliation. Humiliation makes a person feel less than what they are in more public way than one is comfortable with. I thought of the dunce hat that students used to wear due to their negligence in school academics.

The Dunce Hat works just like the classic one from the older methods of teaching students, but with a little more fun flare. The dunce hat has red led lights that move in a rhythmic sequence at the front of the hat. This allows for attention to be easily drawn to it. However with the flip turning of the knob located on the hat, the lights change to a more stand still pattern. There comes an audio that comes out of it as well. The knob after the audio and lights have changed on the express board, can be changed back to its initial state by turning the knob the opposite direction as the initial time. With the added flare, the more “humiliation” the user will feel. Particularly in public places.

Code Sources:

https://learn.adafruit.com/make-it-change-potentiometers/makecode

https://makecode.adafruit.com/79394-95312-06495-35201

https://makecode.adafruit.com/96402-44006-26628-40574

Video Documentation:

https://youtu.be/epKh74D2Xpo