We presented our project to an outside panel after the Living Architecture review. We got great feedback on both the technical implementation of our project, as well as the concept of DIY Interactive Architecture.
Our prototype for this week involved using common architectural elements as our capacitive 'sensors'. We managed to use part of a chair, and a door knob. We were hoping that we could use practically any metallic architectural element, but this proved difficult - it would seem that many of the metals around us have anti-conductive coatings on them. We might need our own metallic foil stickers (or similar) to give a predictable range of input values.
Major technical advancements:
- output using one of the pulse-width modulated pins on the Arduino allows us to vary the voltage (brightness of the LED) between 0-5 volts by passing it a value 0-255.
- lots of advice we're still sorting through on how to power larger output devices such as lamps.
Here are the prototypes:
Testing a door knob - thanks Melissa for holding the board!
Testing a metal chair.
Improved Flexinol response.
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