Homework :

✔️For next week, I expect you to have an idea for your final project. That is, a description of what your thing does, what technologies you will use, and a plan for how to make it happen. Please write this up and post it to the blog. Use photos, illustrations and examples to give as best a description as you can. Try and make a prototype of the basic idea.

✔️Install node.js before the next class meeting

Final_Emoji Button

For my final projects, I have several ideas, but one of them is physical emoji reaction. Since Instagram has incorporated emoji reaction for Instagram story, most people start to react by only sending an emoji instead of context. In order to bring back the social media interaction, I’d like to create a physical device. It allows people to send emojis by pressing the button. However, before sending out an emoji, people are required to receive enough emoji from other people. The more emoji they receive, the more they can send out. To indicate the amount you got for each emoji, I will add a LED for each one; the more you got, the brighter the emoji will be.

I haven’t figured out the exact way to link the physical emoji device with Instagram, but for the physical part, I will be doing similar to the Big Enter Pillow. Once the pillow is plugged into the computer by USB, it can be worked as the enter key, such as sending messages. As for mine, I will be doing in a wireless way, so the device can also be worked on phone.