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<\/p>\nFor this project I attempted to capture the feeling of NASA’s aerial photography through an interactive paper globe. I achieved this lighting up the world’s largest cites with LEDs beneath the surface of the paper globe. The user simply selects the local WPI time on the controller and the globe automatically updates the appropriate lights.<\/p>\n
Due to the hardware limitations of the Arduino I was using and my desire to have “flickering” lights, I was only able to install 5 LEDs in contrast to my original goal of 11 LEDs. Further, the size and shape of the globe prevented me from placing lights in the northern-most reaches of the world, including the USA, most of Europe, and parts of Russia. Unfortunately, this meant here were quite a few cities that couldn’t be displayed.<\/p>\n
The Max Patch was actually quite simple once it was complete. I had a fair amount of issues getting serial output to work and figuring out how to encode the lighting data to send to the Arduino. I was able to work through the serial issues on my own, and JPR alerted me to the matrix controller, which was a very nice way of encoding the lighting data.<\/p>\n
While I wasn’t able to add as many lights as I would have wanted, I’m fairly pleased with the overall result. As with most projects in AR3200, this is my first time doing anything like this, so the pride of completing the project and learning something new take precedent over trying to completely satisfy every goal I had when starting the project.<\/p>\n
Below is the control panel, some stills of the globe, and a video of the whole system in action. Additionally, the max patch can be seen at the very bottom of the page.<\/p>\n
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