This is our first project. It is called sound animal because it looks like two little pigs and their tails are link together. This device encourage people to make friends and link people together. We aimed to let people start talking with the stranger and also we have a food-delivery system which around the top of the forest table, it allow people to transfer their food and shall with each other.
Actually we have tried many materials and shape of our sound animals, finally we made a metal cup to spread sound. It is translations of cook and can. And there is a cotton line connect two animals, so when you talk to this animal , people who at another side can hear your voice. We also found that when the cotton line hits a pillar or other object, the sound cannot spread, so we knot the cotton lines around the column and then tension the two cottons at 90 degrees so that the sound can spread.
The shape of our sound animals is from the sound wave ,when you look at the side face it just like sound wave, some higer and some lower. We cut many pieces of wood and connect them together with long screws. We have reserved a position on each piece of wood that can pass through the microphone, and then we put the microphone into the animal.
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