...For Project 2, the task was to create some kind of interactive device that was meaningful or useful in some way. It took me a long time to think of an idea that I was somewhat passionate about while staying within the scope of this class. I work in an office that provides a service to CU students, and the day before the project proposal was due I was speaking with my boss about how everyone we work with (mostly the two of us) could improve their language in the office. From this conversation, I arrived at the idea of creating an interactive “swear jar” that would sense when someone swore and alert them to put money in the jar. VOICE RECOGNITION/CODE To start my project, I needed to figure out how to do voice recognition so I looked around online at many different pieces of voice recognition hardware, since this task is not currently possible purely through software. I decided that the VeeaR EasyVR Shield 3.0 would work well for my purposes and I ordered it through SparkFun. The shield arrived and I soldered all the necessary connections and looked at a demo arduino sketch to get started. Once I had the shield setup, I began to think about what words I would...
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