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A wind turbine remote control is born
Apr 4th
Taking a break from revision this evening to play with Arduino for a while, all in preparation for Blowing Nowhere. Blowing Nowhere is the new name for our remote-controlled wind turbine POV project, that we're taking to the Nowhere festival. In a nutshell, we're making a 1.5m diameter wind turbine, that will power arrays of LEDs on ...
LED Circus Equipment
Dec 23rd
Synopsis: Creation of two LED 'glowstaffs': long clear hand-held tubes housing 40 multicolour LEDs. Using a micro-controller and a USB connection, it is possible to program a sequence of colours into the staff, to change during spinning. This was a great project for me - rekindling my old love of staff spinning, and fuelling my new ...
Automated Retrospective Program
Dec 23rd
Synopsis: A program that auto-collages every drawing, doodle and note I've drawn and written for the past 6 years, and auto-collages them according to my chosen theme, date, preference or whim. A while back, in a fit of procrastination/dedication I took a digital photo of every page of every notebook (yup I kept them all!) I could ...
The Big Tea’se Fire Sculptures
Dec 5th
Creation and programming of an Arduino micro-controller circuit, to command 4 propane flame-effects via power transistors and solenoids. Automatic firing sequences created and manual control via a user-interface of pressable antique cutlery.