Bubbletto Brainstorm

I have been going on the Arduino forums and chatting with some very generous people on what to do about bubbletto see post . After some throwing of ideas, here are some that have come up that are really awesome

this is the actual forum discussion thread:

thread

and a picture someone was kind enough to draw up for me:


one was using a "bobber" concept...that is have a bob float on the water near the canal wall which is attached to the sensor output (very much like the wii wiimote technology ).The sensor output will then signal the bubble machine to turn on.

here is a rough design i came up with:



Another idea is to use the concept on infared lights. Shining the light a horizontal point to the water surface, whenever there are huge waves, the infared light will be cut off, thus triggering the bubble machine to turn on.