Wrote this almost a month ago but it never got published:
That is a good question. Our design is such an open platform we couldn't decide. We couldn't decide what sensors to use. We couldn't decide what to make it do or how to react. No one wanted to commit to any one thing. This is why we decided to make our array of clusters very multifunctional...we decided not to decide, basically. We will have clusters of 5 modules. One will be the communicator and house the Arduinos and batteries and the other five will have different sensors detecting light, sound, distance, and motion. At different times different sensors can be functioning or the strongest signal relative to another can determine the function. What I would really like to see, though, is a hierarchy of sensors. Maybe the light sensor realizes that it is day time, so the motion sensor starts working and once it senses motion the little creatures start wiggling around and then stop if someone gets close or makes noise and close up.
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