Making Things Interactive

March 20, 2008

Digital Book state diagram

Filed under: 8: State Machine, Assignments, Nadeem Haidary — nhaidary @ 1:56 pm

This is a digital book reader. When the front cover is opened, a photosensor reads HIGH to display the title page. The page is attached to a motor, which in this case is used backwards as a generator and switch. When the page is turned, it rotates the motor, causing an input pin to read HIGH and provide electricity to generate the next page’s text on a digital ink display. Everytime you turn the page 360 degrees, you generate a new page, so it simulates turning the pages of an analog book. The text (which in my case will be displayed in Processing) has a feature to save a section of the page as an image in the margin by drawing a box around it. You can view that image full-screen by clicking on it in the margin.

book state diagram

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