Verve 2 - a visual aid for exploring electronics
Devices Medgadgets / / December 19, 2019
Before us Verve 2 from developer Inxus - the designer with a set of analog sensors to help manage a computer.
With the application, which comes on a flash drive, together with the designer, the computer will execute certain commands.
You need to activate the sensor, set the application threshold trigger value. When it reaching the computer executes the command: for example, a mouse click or a specific key.
Now consider a toy more.
Equipment
The set consists of a control unit, a pack of multi-colored patch cables, four extension, miniUSB-cable, USB flash drive with a quick start guide and an application for Windows and OS X and a set of sensors:
- a magnetic sensor;
- sonic sensor;
- touch-sensor;
- thermometer;
- Motion Sensor;
- the handle angle sensor;
- ambient light sensor;
- button.
Board sensors are equipped with holes for planting, they can even be for something to sew. True if you are using the designer, not only as a toy, but more on that later.
How to use Verve 2
To get started, you must first install the application from a flash card. Then, using cables to connect one of the sensors to the control unit.
Prioritization of connectors is not important, any sensor can plug into any socket, the application reflects the output number.
The first thing is to start Sensor Jam application. will be active the letter in front of you. If you press them on your keyboard, you will hear a distinctive sound (which can also be set independently).
Verve is connected to the computer 2, install the sensor and press the button on the dark. Blue luminescence indicator indicates that the device is in keyboard emulation mode. Now, you can call the same sounds are not the keyboard, but with the help of sensors.
A simple toy, which shows how the periphery communicates with a computer. He brought his magnet to the appropriate sensors - heard a cock. Then swap the sensor and see what sounds are caused by the same sensor is now.
In general, available to demonstrate the main features.
To deal with the designer at this level are the children of four years, which more and is not necessary. And older children will be the first step of training here with such elementary instruction:
This training is useful to go to the Verve 2 - an application that allows you to more easily use sensors.
In the application, there are eight columns that record the activity of the connected sensors. Each of the columns can be divided into several sectors, corresponding to a certain operation threshold.
Of the sector can be secured action: pressing a mouse button or a key on the keyboard, as well as sending e-mail messages.
That in this way you can do with the designer? Indulge and write text using sensors to receive messages when the conditions change, the computer automatically configure the response to external changes.
For some reason I was reminded of a children's story N. Nosov "Cheerful Family," in which children are taken out of chickens in a homemade incubator. That's who was looking for a system that monitors the temperature and illumination and signaling fault!
Now the children will also find a class, worthy of automated control.
The software suite also includes the primitive shooting game in which you can control using the designer sensors sight interstellar weapons. A clear demonstration of capabilities that tells gamers how to use Verve 2 to increase the effectiveness of raids (I mean the opportunity to press the button, such as foot).
How to create a smart home
Designer developers believe that Verve 2 will not be just a toy, and when you explore its capabilities and entertainment time runs out, the device can be used in the home.
As already mentioned, Verve 2 is able to work with an internet connection and send e-mail notifications (able and SMS, but in our country, this feature is not works), so from the sensor system can be made small control state house station: to monitor the availability of guests at the door, the windows open or temperature room.
Using the developers see this:
To buy Verve 2
The toy is good, but without the dark spots is not done.
- First, if someone hopes that the child will be very happy to play with the designer from the first second, it is severely disappointed. Exception - children who have long and sincerely fond of electronics.
- Second, if the children do not have the engineering veins, even after meeting with the instrument they are not interested in its capabilities.
- Third, if you do not understand a single gram of what the structure of the interaction designer and computer, you can not explain it to the child.
That is an excellent visual aid, but only in the presence of a good teacher. Audience these designer unfortunately greatly limited.
If among your relatives or friends have an electronics novice, then you need to run out and buy 2 Verve him as a gift for the top five in a quarter in physics.
Layfhaker thanks Store Medgadgets.ru for providing the test device.