Interactive
Cat Toy
Product Description.
The Interactive Cat Toy (ICT) is a whimsical plush toy that is made to stimulate any cat’s playful instincts. With that in mind, our group spent an entire semester understanding and designing multiple components that will grasp the interest and entice your typical domesticated feline. Our findings were that the movement of a tail, sounds, and lighting were all features that were at the top of our list. So, our group decided that the best thing to do was to mash them together! Creating what is now the ICT we have today.
Expanding on those features we are allowing even more customizability of the ICT for cat owners. With interchangeable skins, making the ICT appear to be a squirrel or a lizard (with other possible designs to expand on), the ability to place catnip in the tail, and an application to change the main three different features.
The application has the capability to change each of the main three features. The speaker contains three different sounds to choose from, the lighting has three patterns to choose from, while finally, the movement of the tail has three different motions or speeds to choose from. With the application and the interchangeable skins, there are currently eighteen different combinations for the ICT.
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Designers.
The best team in the world.
The Interactive cat toy designers spent many days brainstorming and working together to bring our toy to life. Meeting up and communicating on a weekly basis to insure the success of our design.
About Our Team:
Aliza Grabowski
Computer Engineer
Aliza Grabowski is a Computer Engineering undergraduate student at University of Central Florida of Spring 2022. Aliza contributed to the Interactive Cat Toy by researching the software mechanics of the WS2812 LEDs, Servo Motor, STEMMA Speaker, and HC-SR501 Motion Sensor. Aliza will be the first generation to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in her family. The next steps in her life will be helping build her family business to the next level.
Vu Nguyen
Electrical Engineer
Vu Nguyen is obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in Spring of 2022. He is planning to enter the industry after graduation and will decide to get his master’s degree in the near future. For this project, he is responsible for designing the PCB and testing the hardware components.
Elizabeth Vargas
Electrical Engineer
Elizabeth Vargas is working towards attaining her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering this Spring of 2022. She is considering attending graduate school and has been invited to participate in the Ph.D. program with the University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. For this project, Elizabeth’s electrical engineering work was focused on the design of the power supply circuitry and meeting the lighting requirements specifications.
Joseph Lopez
Computer Engineer
Joseph Lopez was motivated for one member of his family to become a Computer Engineer. He is graduating this Spring of 2022, and this will make him the first in his family to graduate from a University outside of his native country of Columbia. He would love to have the opportunity to be able to travel the world while working. For this project, Joseph helped in designing the mobile application and Bluetooth connectivity.
Sponsor.
Furry Testers.
Gracie, Dandy, Twinkle, and Bella worked hard to test the Interactive Cat Toy's enticingness.
End Rating Given : 5/5 paws
Documents.
Throughout Senior Design 1 & Senior Design 2 we utalized our documents for the success of our design.
