The idea with this box was to somehow approximate and translate touch and motion from one side of the box to the other side. This was a simple exploration of using touch interaction, but placing it within an object that doesn't have the same vernacular as other arduino tinged objects.
Unfortunately, my old and dying laptop wasn't able to get the Teensy software to run. This meant having to forego the piezo sound element and try and focus on getting the touch interaction to work. Aaaaaaaaaaand I wasn't even able to get that done in the short time. Which is a real shame. Had I known that the teensy wouldn't work on my letdown of a laptop, I would have put in the hours into trying to get it to work using the Uno. Instead, this video approximates what it was supposed to be doing, using the magic of editing. At the end of the video is a really basic as heck sketch that I pretty much cribbed from online to show that the capacitive sensing was working. The tiny light wasn't enough to be visible from inside the box, so it had to be outside, for extra added bonus disappointment. And then as soon as I started to interact with it, as a physical working object, I realised that there should have been some form of sensitivity to it, just because it makes sense that way.
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