Final Process

For this final project I wanted to work with new sensors that interacted with movement, I am interested in asking the question of our involvement in the process of creating the effect of drift wood. I had many trials and errors within the project to come to my final decision to create a pole like shape with a Pomfrom and a piece of driftwood facing each other.  After my critique the idea of current and tides adjusting to the moon was mentioned and I think this is an interesting idea because the range finders and RGB colors interact with the position of the person who is in between both objects. There is something kind of magical and charming about the RGB LED's to me personally. The colors they recreate are never just red, green and blue but mixtures of each so the have a warm feel to them. Because of this I start to go in a direction of celestial colors and blends so it feel almost alien like to have these glowing objects on these very commonly found beach items. However there is this cheesy Florida holiday appeal about these pieces as well which I believe speaks to typical and stereotyped florida. None the less the interaction in-between the objects is what I am most interested in and the color waves being created in between.

The construction of these objects are following the same process for Project 1.  The  parallel construction for the wires and RGB LEDS is the simplest to me for creating this work and the way the lines follow the marks of the drift wood I find really meditative to create but really aesthetically pleasing. I after this project looking at the parts I would like to find really small LEDs and work on the drift wood Idea, I like the idea of doing really meticulous work and extending this idea further once I leave school.

The picture above shows the rang finder collecting data of the location of the person. There are 3 pins accessing  the RGB functions of the LED and there are there are three outputs on the rang finder that are sending those outputs to the pins. ***CODE BELOW

long pulse, inches;

const int pwPin = 7; 

const int redPin = 2;

const int bluePin = 3;

const int greenPin = 4;

int redVal, greenVal, blueVal;

void setup() {

  //This opens up a serial connection to shoot the results back to the PC console

  Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop() {

  pinMode(pwPin, INPUT);

   

  pulse = pulseIn(pwPin, HIGH);

  //147uS per inch

  inches = pulse/147;

  

  //redVal = map(inches, 5, 60, 0, 255);

  //blueVal = map(inches, 5, 60, 255, 0);

  //greenVal = map(inches, 5, 60, 100, 200);

  

  if(inches < 10){

    redVal = 0;

    greenVal = 0;

    blueVal = 255;

  } else 

    if(inches < 30){

       redVal = 0;

       greenVal = 255;

       blueVal = 0;

    } else if (inches < 50) {

          redVal = 255;

          greenVal = 0;

          blueVal = 0;

    } else {

         redVal = 0;

          greenVal = 0;

          blueVal = 0;

    }

  

  analogWrite(redPin, redVal);

  analogWrite(bluePin, blueVal);

  analogWrite(greenPin, greenVal);

   

  Serial.print(inches);

  Serial.print("in, ");

  Serial.println();

  

  Serial.println(redVal);

  Serial.println(greenVal);

  Serial.println(blueVal);

  delay(500);

}