An Etch a Sketch interactive console that allows you to create digital art pieces.
Electronics + UX
Overview
Description
Paint Party! is an Etch A Sketch video game. This project has two parts, the game control and the software to connect it to the computer.
It has 4 different and exclusive paint brushes and a set of 10 brush colors (including the party brush color). People have to choose one of the four brushes by pressing the buttons at the top of the control to start painting. By playing with the knobs and the color slider, they can make beautiful and creative drawings. Each creation will be unique and awesome.
Role
Engineer + Interaction designer + Product designer
Project parameters
2 weeks length - Individual project
Project deveplopment
The objective of this project was to create an Etch A Sketch game using Processing and Arduino.
I started planning what would be the interaction of the game. The original game has two knobs that control the X and Y axes to move the stylus and by shaking the device, you can clean the screen. As a result, I had to keep the same interaction.
I added the possibility to choose the paintbrush and the color of it that is indicated by a LED.
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The challenge of the project was to create interesting brushes in Processing for
The first brush paints circles that move dynamically, vary in size and transparency.
The second brush paints lines that have a starting point in common and that vary the transparency when they move.
The third brush paints rotating lines that vary the transparency when they move.
The fourth and last brush paints Bézier curves whose turning point moves according to the knobs.
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Despite it was a short project, I enjoyed planning the interaction of it and programming the different brushes.
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This type of project opens my creativity and allows me to explore the ways in which I can make people smile.
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The most difficult part of the project was the setting of the slider potentiometer because it is a sensor with high sensitivity and if it is not connected correctly, sensor reading fluctuations with interference may occur with the rest of the sensors connected to the board.