My proposal for the midterm is to take a plush bird and place flex sensors on the wings. The arduino program will be able to register when the wings are flapped, or when one wing is depressed. On the processing side, altitude will constantly degrade over time, and increase when the wings are flapped.
I would like to add personality to the bird by having it resist the player or have its own desires come through. One idea I had was to put LEDs on its wings, which blink like car blinkers, to tell the player where the bird wants to go.
