The title is in reference to 2 Chinese dialects 侬 for Shanghainese and 啥 for Hunan-ese. The translation is “What did you say?” which directly relates to the project because it’s teaching dialect basics.
I was thinking about doing my final project about learning Chinese dialects and having these native speakers of the dialect be able to have a visual for the learners. I want to do this project as well to raise awareness about the dying population of local dialect speakers. Fewer and fewer children are learning their local dialect because schools are only teaching Mandarin. Many parents are also not teaching or talking to their children in the local dialect because they want to make sure their children have the best chance in school with no issues of getting confused with words. The Chinese section of the gaokao also only tests on the standard Mandarin, so it further promoting the killing of the local dialects.
How blow can you go?
The title is a reference to a line in the Electric Shuffle “How low can you go” and reference how the game works.
For this project, users need to blow enough to get underneath the limbo pole. For this idea, I thought of the fad game Flappy bird. I remember it being hard for just tapping, so making it a little harder with the blowing makes it more fun hopefully. I am not exactly sure which kind of sensor I will use, I was thinking of using a pressure sensor, but I will still need to do some more research.
Oscar the Grouch
This title is a reference to the Sesame Street character because he is a character in a trash bin and is grouchy (about incorrect sorting).
When thinking about this project, I immediately thought of my daily struggle with my residents not following Shanghai’s trash sorting, making me Oscar the Grouch. For this project, I would like to have the four bins on the screen with a grouchy monster hovering over. The user will be given a piece of trash that they have to put in the correct bin, otherwise, the monster will be very angry. To select which bin they want to place the trash, I want to use 4 big tv show game buzzers to represent each bin. I will create the display through processing and the controlling of the buttons through Arduino. This project’s goal is to make people more aware of the new trash sorting system.