Wood Chime in Action.

Now that my studio final is done, I can post some more about the project.

The Wood Chime.








Get some Popsicle sticks from the Dollar store and drill holes so that is make a nice pattern.
Its best to make a template so the holes are even.

Then string them together like above. I tried different stick materials but steel seems to flex the least under stress.

the Popsicle sticks rotate freely around the pivot, but if their weight is too evenly distributed, they will balance out and not return to a verticle position. I didn't use the center holes in the template because of this.


The turning part is made up of small wood tear- drop shapes with a hole drilled so they string together. The stick needed to be rigid and the wood pieces are not supposed to rotate around the pivot because the motor is turn the stick and therefore the entire shaft.



So I strung it all together and attached a CD motor to one end and hooked up the photo-sensor to the Arduino like so.


And the code was a simple sketch from the Arduino library, "Blink without Delay"


Just a few kinks to work out, I need to slow the motor down a bit, but all in all the overall project worked exactly as we planned.

And in Action.

Don't know if it embedded correctly so this is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734OoZNU1OE

LED placement for successful illumination!!!

so i decided to come up with picture that would give the best description of how to light up a plexi piece to create a great effect.

Choose one...

so i chosen a door... and began to work on a design for it. i chose the reveal to have circular plexi cut out to make it oppose the outside suface so that it have the contrast behind the reveal.

after choose the door, began the designing of the reveal

Nicks Reveal

so....i made a reveal based on the previous assignment i did, just in a different contexts that made for this group project. in this project the reveal consist of 4 different doors and behind every door there would be a reveal. i chose to have a reveal of a LED light show. the lights would be constantly on and seen though an opague material.

......reveltekture......

Moving on to additions......CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO MOUNT!

The name in full......REVELTEKTURE

Finally coming together

Gears are working. Yeah!



We have 2 (12kg) servos rotating 180 degrees to open the doors. One servo operates the door going down at an angle. The other servo operates the door going out, with the remaining 2 doors attached with steel cable cut to the exact length of extension.



Now we are working on the code for the IR sensor that will open the doors upon viewer interaction. And by interaction I mean pausing to look at our intervention.
Our idea is to have the door begin their opening progression when someone pauses in front of them. To achieve this, we plan on rigging an IR sensor above the intervention pointing down at an angle so that it is not triggered until someone is directly in front.






We will keep on trucking, til we get where we want to be.

TOTAL MOVEMENT

Finding the center push point seems simple in theory. When you are pushing on something with odd geometries, gravity obviously, and multiple resistances in different areas finding a push point is difficult.

The door pushes and pulls others with a motor that is not yet attached... today this will happen...

Fully open.......................................................................................THE REVEAL IS LOOKING SWEET!!!

Only a few days to deadline...I COULD USE SOME HELP...SOMEONE!!!