by Carlos Cuevas
For the final project, I plan to play with LEDs because they’re so fun to manipulate. The flux/matrix code we worked on a couple weeks ago with the force sensor is kind of what inspired me to want to create this. I want to make a sort of “lamp” although I think it would really just be an interactive “sculpture.” I plan on making either a cube, pyramid, or just covering a box with perfboard and covering it in LEDs which will all light up in a controlled sequence (similar to the prototype we made on our breadboards). I just think it would look awesome and could use a little desk decoration/awesome paper weight! The code will be my biggest challenge considering I’ll be working with so many LEDs.
Materials:
– Perfboard
– LEDs
– Force Sensor
– Resistors
– Arduino
Questions:
1) Which design would be more appealing to look at (cube, pyramid, other)?
2) Should the sequence of the LEDs vary in any way, or would the individual rows lighting up in sync with each other suffice?
3) Is there such as thing as too many LEDs? I bought a bag of 1,000… (I’m definitely not using all of them, but still…)
1. I think that the pyramid would be the most appealing to look at. There is something different about them and if you make it large enough it can definitely look amazing.
2. If you line the LEDs up in perfect rows it would be interesting to see them work different patterns. Maybe you can even get a couple codes and have them line up one by one or have them light up in a particular pattern.
3. You want to keep in neat. Have the spaced out evenly. If you make the project small don't use a lot of them. It might be interesting to see the project done on a very large scale though.