PROJECT GALLERY
I like to learn new things and think education is very important. I created this installation to teach people something new.
I chose a black and white color scheme to keep the design nice and simple and to make the rainbow LED strips 'pop'.
I wanted to challenge myself and become more skilled in programming. Coding in the Arduino environment was new to me.
I built this installation to inspire people. I wanted to teach them something new about the world that they live in. That is why I designed an interactive world map to introduce people to different kinds of music from all over the globe.
The installation is built on a wooden base. Added to that are RGB LED strips and HALL sensors. The software is written by myself. The program for the LED strips runs on an Arduino Uno microcontroller whilst the program for the soundtracks is written in Processing and runs on a Raspberry PI3. The sound comes from two 4.5 - 6 VDC speakers with a Velleman VMA 408 amplifier. The installation contains more than 80 soundtracks, which are all edited by me. To make sure that I was sending out the right message, I did extensive research about the history of music from around the world.
Each continent on the installation has one or more HALL sensors. These sensors react to magnetic fields. When a magnet, in this case a magnet with a plane attached, is held close to the sensor, the Raspberry PI3 will play one of the corresponding soundtracks.