Colour Light Artwork
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
This year, I’ve been helping a friend Jade with her artwork combining music with colours. Below you can find some pictures from my gallery of the work. A detailed schematic and code will be published sometime in 2010 I hope. Midi events were caught with a processing script, then sent over to the Arduino via serial. The Arduino captured the note and velocity then performed it’s magic to dynamically light up the installation. I wish I had a video to show you but unfortunately none turned out. How this girl managed to have this idea pop into her head I’ll never know 
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Some interesting times developing this project. First, we probably didn’t communicate the best, so I guessed she wanted 12 lights, one for each note, turns out she wanted 48 (as you can imagine, the power requirements just went up 4 fold.) We then re-designed the circuit to run on 15V instead of 5V (cheaper power supplies.) and it all ended up working well 
. You won’t have any idea of how big a project this was, but I think it was well worth it . (the final rigging took over 20 hours straight to rig up, why Jade and her dad couldn’t have just build the frame out of chicken wire or a conductive material I don’t know )
The Gallery can also be found here
