Wromp

We've decided the main sensor that we are going to be using is an LED matrix and a microphone.

Realistically… How would we get the camera LEDs to work with the kaleidoscope, we still want our project to be where you are turning a part of you into the LEDs, but instead of it literally being an image of you it will show you a visual representation of your voice into an LED visualizer!

We still want to create an immersive experience but perhaps instead of being just an individual experience it could be a small group experience. I was thinking that we would represent the tones or pitches of a voice through the colors of the LEDs. Possibly having either a loud tone or high pitched noise displaying energetic colors such as yellows, oranges and reds. A soft voice or a low pitch would yield you violet or purple colors.

Would the thing be going off if people were talking on the other side of the room? We want to make it where it would be more direct, as if you had to talk into the thing. I still don't know what to call it yet. The working title is the 'Sound Activated Visionoscope'.

This could open a new door though because how would a viewer know to walk up and start talking into the... thing?


Here we got the LED matrix working with two potentiometers making the LED display kind of like an etch-a-sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsNJ-xU4W9o
project links:
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/RowColumnScanning

another one that we did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ3978xWSuo
project links: http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/DirectDriveLEDMatrix