This week before the next Smart Systems class we have to figure out a project to look into. I have 2 ideas, one is really kind of basic but kind of neat though not really useful in any way. It was a mechanical flower with a long stem that moved toward light. I had an idea of how it would move mechanically and it is pretty neat, it would wow people I think then it would just be a matter of programming it to sense the direction of light using an array of LDRs. It's all a bit basic though. Would impress people in year 2 but I think the standard (for me at least) should be a bit higher. I might still do it though, because as I said it's neat.

The other idea was something I came up with last year and wanted to use for the Dragons Den pitch that we had to do in year 2. The group I was in didn't seem too receptive to it, but a friend of mine reminded me about it when I told her of my location-aware project. It's a device that knows where a toddler is in relation to a driveway when a car is moving. There has been a spate of toddlers being run over in driveways over the years, enough to make one recognise it as a real problem in need of attention, and "good parenting" is clearly not the answer. Much the same way that "just eat less" is not the answer to obesity really.

I still need to read more on location awareness though.