Proposal 1: trashcan that can interact with the user, it talks to induce the user to throw away their trash in the cans. The project would use a movement sensor to detect objects falling inside and giving a prerecorded message.
The idea behind the trashcan is to incentive the use of the trash to better protect the environment, by giving fun facts or phrases that motivate people to use the object correctly.
Proposal 2: Proposal 2 is based on the idea of cultural interactivity between people. The premise is to use the smells and the sounds that people relate to home, and their own culture. This will help to give an idea of what other people experience in different parts of the world. This project will help the understanding of the cultural richness that the world posses, and can help close the mental barriers that people have regarding other countries and people.
Proposal 3: An array of objects (tbd) that when touched send a signal to the arduino and the computer to show an image and a tone. The idea behind is for people to collaborate and experiment with the objects, creating songs and different array of images. This idea comes from a display of light bulbs that turned on when being touched, but in this case my project would project different shapes depending on the object touched.