For my final project, I plan to expand on my drawing device concept and make it a finished piece. I plan to do this in not only the materials I use and how I go about putting it together but also by how it works. Being inspired by Zimoun’s minimal design aesthetics and simplicity in how his pieces function, I have decided that I would like to mimic these design traits in my piece. I am leaning towards using cardboard boxes in this iteration of my design rather than the foam core I used in my drawing device version 1.0. I also plan on having the servo react to data which I will later determine.

The few questions that I have are as follows:

Should I keep the interactive knob feature so that people are capable to control and manipulate the drawing or just leave it up the the machine drawing solely based on the data it is reading?

Are the original 7″x7″ base dimensions a good size or would it be more interesting to see it work in a larger scale?

Are there any other materials that should be considered to be used to construct the piece, while keeping in mind that it needs to be somewhat light still to allow the movement of the marking tools to make the top box dance around to create the drawing?

What sort of data would be interesting for the device to read to make the piece move and create the drawings?

**Update**

I now plan on getting rid of the manual control feature with the potentiometer and plan on just having the device work based off sound input data.

Task List-

Wait for components to arrive
Research/figure out code
Prototype/breadboard circuit
Build device structure
Finalize circuitry
Finalize project

Updated Budget List-

Breakout Board for Electret Microphone (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9964) $7.95 + S/H

Links to Sample Code-

Electret Code (based on knock and calibrate examples) (http://www.arch.columbia.edu/files/gsapp/imceshared/pma2119/arduino_Code_for_the_electret_microphone.pdf)