Kitty Yeung
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Made of Mars + Adafruit Circuit Playground Express + DFRobot

An outfit made of Martian material. It provides awareness of its environment. Let's protect the Earth even if we can move to Mars.

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Made of Mars + Adafruit Circuit Playground Express + DFRobot

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Made of Mars fabrics
×1
Circuit Playground Express
Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
×1
DFRobot Optical dust sensor
×1
Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
×1
Jumper wires (generic)
Jumper wires (generic)
×1
Alligator Clips
Alligator Clips
×1
Resistor 100 ohm
Resistor 100 ohm
×1
Resistor 47.5 ohm
Resistor 47.5 ohm
×1
AstroReality planets
×1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

Hand tools and fabrication machines

sewing machine (generic)
Hot glue gun (generic)
Hot glue gun (generic)

Story

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Schematics

Pin connections

I used A3 for dust sensor analogue pin to avoid sharing pins with other sensors on Adafruit Circuit Playground Express. The diagrams are from https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Interface-With-Optical-Dust-Sensor/

Optical dust sensor pin assignments

Diagram from https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Interface-With-Optical-Dust-Sensor/

Code

Made of Mars Kitty Yeung

Arduino
Reference code from Adafruit Circuit Playground Express "analog_sensor" example and dust sensor on Arduino UNO https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Interface-With-Optical-Dust-Sensor/
// Circuit Playground Analog Sensor Demo
// Shows how to read an analog sensor like temperature, light,
// sound, or even external inputs and convert the analog value
// to color and sound on the board.  Will light up NeoPixels
// with a color proportional to the analog value, and if the slide
// switch is turned to the left will play a music tone proportional
// to the value.
// Code for optical dust sensor refer to https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Interface-With-Optical-Dust-Sensor/

#include <Adafruit_CircuitPlayground.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <SPI.h>

// Change the analog input value below to try different sensors:
#define ANALOG_INPUT  A3  // Specify the analog input to read.
                          // Circuit Playground has the following
                          // inputs available:
                          //  - A0  = temperature sensor / thermistor
                          //  - A4  = sound sensor / microphone
                          //  - A5  = light sensor
                          //  - A7  = pin #6 on board
                          //  - A9  = pin #9 on board
                          //  - A10 = pin #10 on board
                          //  - A11 = pin #12 on board
#define ANALOG_INPUT2  A0

// These defines set the range of expected analog values.
// This is used to scale the NeoPixels, sound, etc.
#define VALUE_MIN     0
#define VALUE_MAX     200

// These defines set the range of pixel color when mapping
// to the sensor value.
#define COLOR_RED_MIN    255  
#define COLOR_GREEN_MIN  0
#define COLOR_BLUE_MIN   0

#define COLOR_RED_MAX    0
#define COLOR_GREEN_MAX  0
#define COLOR_BLUE_MAX   255

// These defines set the range of sound frequencies when
// mapping to the sensor value.
#define TONE_FREQ_MIN    523  // C5 note
#define TONE_FREQ_MAX    988  // B5 note

// Initialize and define optical dust sensor
int measurePin = A3;
int ledPower = 2;



unsigned int samplingTime = 280;
unsigned int deltaTime = 40;
unsigned int sleepTime = 9680;

float voMeasured = 0;
float calcVoltage = 0;
float dustDensity = 0;

void setup() {
  // Setup serial port.
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Serial.println("Circuit Playground Analog Sensor Demos!");

  // Setup optical dust sensor
    pinMode(ledPower,OUTPUT);

  // Setup Circuit Playground library.
  CircuitPlayground.begin();
}

void loop() {
  // Get the sensor value and print it out (can use serial plotter
  // to view realtime graph!).
  uint16_t value = analogRead(ANALOG_INPUT);
  uint16_t value2 = analogRead(ANALOG_INPUT2);
  Serial.println(value, DEC);
  Serial.println(value2, DEC);

// Measure optical dust sensor and print in serial monitor
delayMicroseconds(samplingTime);

  voMeasured = analogRead(measurePin);

  delayMicroseconds(deltaTime);
  digitalWrite(ledPower,HIGH);
  delayMicroseconds(sleepTime);

  calcVoltage = voMeasured*(3.3/1024.0);
  dustDensity = 0.17*calcVoltage-0.1;

  if ( dustDensity < 0)
  {
    dustDensity = 0.00;
  }

  Serial.println("Raw Signal Value (0-1023):");
  Serial.println(voMeasured);

  Serial.println("Voltage:");
  Serial.println(calcVoltage);

  Serial.println("Dust Density:");
  Serial.println(dustDensity);


  // Map the sensor value to a color.
  // Use the range of minimum and maximum sensor values and
  // min/max colors to do the mapping.
  if(value2 < VALUE_MIN)      value2 = VALUE_MIN;
  else if(value2 > VALUE_MAX) value2 = VALUE_MAX;
  int red   = map(value2, VALUE_MIN, VALUE_MAX, COLOR_RED_MIN  , COLOR_RED_MAX);
  int green = map(value2, VALUE_MIN, VALUE_MAX, COLOR_GREEN_MIN, COLOR_GREEN_MAX);
  int blue  = map(value2, VALUE_MIN, VALUE_MAX, COLOR_BLUE_MIN , COLOR_BLUE_MAX);
  // Gamma correction gives a more linear appearance to brightness ranges
  red   = CircuitPlayground.gamma8(red);
  green = CircuitPlayground.gamma8(green);
  blue  = CircuitPlayground.gamma8(blue);



  // Light up all pixels with the color.
  CircuitPlayground.clearPixels();
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(1, red, green, blue);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(2, red-128, green, blue);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(3, red, green-128, blue);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(4, red, green, blue-128);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(5, red-128, green-128, blue);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(6, red, green-128, blue-128);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(7, red-128, green, blue-128);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(8, red-128, green-128, blue-128);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(9, red-200, green, blue);
  delay(value);
  CircuitPlayground.setPixelColor(0, red, green-200, blue);

  delay(value);

  
  // min/max colors to do the mapping.
  if(value < VALUE_MIN)      value = VALUE_MIN;
  else if(value > VALUE_MAX) value = VALUE_MAX;
  // Map the sensor value to a tone frequency.
  int frequency = map(value, VALUE_MIN, VALUE_MAX, TONE_FREQ_MIN, TONE_FREQ_MAX);
 
  // Play the tone if the slide switch is turned on (to the left).
  if (CircuitPlayground.slideSwitch()) {
    // Play tone of the mapped frequency value for 1000 milliseconds.
    CircuitPlayground.playTone(frequency, 1000);
  }
  
  // Delay for a bit and repeat the loop.
  delay(100);
}

Credits

Kitty Yeung

Kitty Yeung

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Physicist/Artist/Musician/Fashion Designer/Engineer www.kittyyeung.com
Thanks to J. R. Skok.

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