Synthetic Relationships

The Brief: Working with a partner you will construct two electronic beings capable of percieving some aspects of the environment around them.
Use whatever sensors are necessary to create their "worldview."
Then you will need to connect them into a network that would enable them to communicate their findings, and respond to the communications of their counterpart.

My response: For this project I created a creature that would measure the anger of a mad queen on a faraway planet through a force sensor hidden inside a stress ball.
The data from the force sensor travels through Adafruit IO to alert the people living on the planet of the queen's mood.

The Story of the Mad Queen of the Planet Ada

Vintage film clips and soundtrack taken from Queen of Blood (1966)

The force sensor pinup

The code I used to measure the force locally

The code I used to send the measurement of the force sensor data to Adafruit IO

Video of the serial monitor registering the force sensor data

Video of the Adafruit IO Dashboard registering the force sensor data

Meanwhile, spies from a rival planet hacked into the Ada Cloud so that they could also monitor the queen's moods
The larger the red circle displayed, the more dangerous it would be to travel to planet Ada