For IMGD this week we had to play with the arduino. Now the really cool thing about the arduino, is that it comes with all different types of sensors that you can hook up and play with to get different readings of data.
For this brief project, we had to use 3 sensors:
1. The flex sensor: measures how “bent” the sensor is
2. The soft potentiometer (Spectra): tracks/senses where a finger’s position is on the sensor strip
3. The temperature sensor: measures temperature changes
My idea was to have these 3 sensors control the RGB values of a circle that I had made in PureData. With three different values coming from the data being picked up by the sensors, the user can adjust the coloring in a lot of cool and unique ways that comes directly from the user’s input.
In this image you can see my set up with the arduino and breadboard full of the 3 sensors and many connectors.
In this image, you get a closer look at the configuration of the different 3 sensors on the breadboard.
My video below explains exactly what I did and shows my arduino set-up with my sensors. So please watch the video for this explained even more!