Light Sensitive Sensor

Light sensitive sensor

Group Idea

The group suggestion is to have sensors pads in a room and when a person steps into the room, where the sensor pads have been laid the lights will turn on depending on which sensor pads the person is stepping on. Every sensor pad will be connected to a few colour lights. We may include music if things go according to the plan.

Influence

My idea is to make something like the Interactive Coffee Table by the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have made.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/tablekits

The designers have used a coffee table and added hundreds of LEDs on the top surface of the table. The LEDs responds to any movement above the table.

I believe all my ideas are going to revolve around sensors. Sensors of activity, heat etc. The sensors may lead to music, light or movement.

Reflection

Daniel Rozin’s - Wooden Mirror-1999.
Wooden mirror consists of video camera, motors and computers on board with sound. As the viewer interacts with the mirror the reflection of the viewer is shows up on the surface. The artist has used a combination of natural (wood) and digital (computer) to put a piece together.

Picture: http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirrormuseum.jpg

Pixelsumo

The work by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman, called Absolut Quartet is an example to prove anything is possible. Both artists made machine which will be making different sounds at different time. Their influence was from a 3D animation called Pipe Dream. In which music was played by robots in Animusic, which was part of the Pipe Dream animation.

Picture above:http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/absolut-machines

Picture aside: http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/absolut-machines

240 Red LEDs

Project by Ladyada called Duel Nature- Summer 2006 is a mix and match of Sculpture and electronics. The details of the project are not out yet but from the site I read the project consists of 240 red LEDs which are controlled individually to make light patterns on the sculpture. The picture of the project looks beautiful.

Picture: http://www.ladyada.net/images/portfolio/dn.jpg