For the first iteration of our whiskers, we dismantled an old digital video camera and repurposed the frame as a body. The frame had an awkward shape which made it impossible to stand upright by itself. However after we attached the frame to a clamp and oriented the lens horizontally, it began to look like some sort of a mechanical creature with a big eye.
We decided that 'whiskers' in this context could be literal; We could have long, thin sensors sticking out underneath, to the side of the 'face' and on the top of the frame, resembling the moustache and hair of a human, the whiskers of an animal. Following that, we wired the moustache to trigger LEDs when they are pushed from the side.
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