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Use the phone sensors to create a pinwheel that spin depends on the loudness level. For testing the program, just blow near the phone’s microphone.

What bricks and objects do you need?

Create a new program and add the following object from the media library:

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Now add these scripts to the pinwheel object:

1. Step

First place the pinwheel on a y-position that you like.

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2. Step

Then you have to check continuously if the loudness level is higher than a certain limit. You can set the limit to 60 or another value you like. To do this you need the forever-brick and the if then else-brick. If the loudness value is higher than 60, save the value into a variable. Multiply the loudness value with 10 to get a higher number respectively a more realistic spin for the pinwheel. To rotate the pinwheel add a rotate right-brick and insert the “spin speed” variable into the text field. You find the variables in the formula editor under the category data.

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3. Step

The pinwheel should not stop immediately after the loudness level is under 60. Copy the rotate right and set variable-brick and paste them under the else-brick. Change the formula in the set variable-brick to “spin wheel * 0,99” to reduce the speed of the rotation smoothly.

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4. Step

Every time the camera is detecting a face, your object is shown on the screen. Now you need to add movement to the object so it stays on a certain part of your face. Pick the place at X: Y: – brick and insert into the x-position field the sensor value “face_x_position” which you find under “devices” in the formula editor. Into the y-value field insert “face_y_position + 500” since the object is a hat.

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