Maquette: Jared Grimm – A18 LIGHT ART

I have began to set up both the electronic and physical side to my project.

For the technical side, I have set up my wifi Arduino board and libraries, and created an program for my Wifi Arduino to connect to a weather service API, and pull temperature data from Worcester for the next 3 days. I now need to interpret this data and to be able to control the addressable LEDs. I hope by Friday to be able to have the LEDS working with the controller to display static lighting. By next Monday i hope to have the Wifi controller working in the sense it prints the temperature data in its console.

I have had issues having the wifi controller connect to a network, although I registered it for WPI. I believe there could just be too much interference, and will consider trying an ethernet option if I can not connect it by next week.

For the physical side of the project, I used thin plastic mirrors to establish a base image to see how it look s with a geometric shape, with various spacings to be made out of mirrors and have dynamic light behind it.

This was just a free style design to test out sizing of pieces, various shapes and how it looked eflecting a background while backlit. I hope to have a design cut into a small scale mirror (15cm x 15 cm) by Friday to test, and be ready to cut out a large scale model for next week. I placed it in front of a changing LED strip I had mounted on a wall to see dynamic light behind the mirrors.