I chose to explore and focus on physical affordances and what kind of movements they can invite from the user when implemented in a tangible object. I was thinking about plants as one of my ideas early on and so when I decided to focus on physical affordances I decided to make an interactive plant that can serve as a toy for children. I wanted to make a plant that had leaves that afforded for certain movements and invited children to interact with them in certain ways that caused the outputs to be triggered. 

At first I was going to use a flex sensor for the leaf that would be pulled on to cause the LEDs to light up but I was reading about these sensors and it said that they were unreliable and sometimes when they were soldered they stopped working. So, when I soldered wires onto mine, it stopped working. I then decided to use a tilt sensor instead of the flex sensor for the pulling leaf as I was already using a tilt sensor for the rotating leaf. I built my circuit, tested everything out with two tilt sensors and everything was fine. I then made my plant and built the circuit into it and everything was fine as well. But then the night before class when I was testing it one last time for the video, the tilt sensor in the pulling leaf broke and so I had to scramble to think of an alternative and decided to make the ball on the pulling leaf a capacitive touch sensor so when held it would make the LEDs light up. 

I created a plant that had one leaf that could be pulled on (now changed to touched) and cause LEDs to light up and another leaf that invited a rotational movement that caused a caterpillar on the plant to move around and rotate.

This is the circuit test with the two tilt sensors still working.

(Note: At first I forgot which way to tilt the LED tilt swithc because I was filiming at the same time.)

Final working project with Capsensor