Project Overview

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The goal of this project is to recreate the scene from “Alien” where an alien pops out of a human body while taking creative liberty. The inspiration for the project came when the professor mentioned that the theme from the prior year’s class was horror. The plan was to focus on making the alien as detailed as possible with glowing eyes, a swaying body, and having a scream play as it pops out of the human cavity. The Arduino program was required to control motors to accomplish the different movements that the alien will perform. With artistic skills used to make a latex alien skin and programming, the final product is expected to be shocking as the alien suddenly pops out of a human torso with a winch and spring mechanism coupled with glowing eyes and erratic motions.

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Week 7

Plans: assemble alien spine rings to pvc pipe in wooden container paint alien skin set up another speaker to make the alien louder work on ratchet winch system sand down hex shaft for winch system set up red led eyes Winch: how to tie a constrictor knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XqvsnWiu8 how to wire the stepper motor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIL5gxRogM -get an easydriver Audio: Spring mechanism:

Week 10

Plans: Assemble audio, motor, and servos all to one bread board and arduino uno drill holes for audio to play through adjust latex sizing for alien add stopper to alien figure out winch system Results: Assembled all parts to one arduino uno, but had to scrap winch idea The alien will only pop up, but will not go back into the box again

Week 3

Plans: Changed alien launch mechanism to spring activation rather than a motor activation Start 3D print design by creating CAD of alien head and jaw mechanism Head of alien Jaw of alien Latex molding research and then bought the latex https://youtu.be/iFHYwuR7GXs Sound board research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1CdC5gzTxY Created and imported audio file using audacity

Group 064-03: Recreation of "Alien"

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