This week I created a box to hide the wires for the lasers. It is made out of 3/4″ plywood which is held together using epoxy. The box is designed to allow a power strip to sit inside with room to access its power switch. This allows the lasers to be turned on and off…

Hi, here is the final update of my progress in my light art project! As the whole system is working now, the only step left for me is to attach the whole piece to my jacket. First, the EL wires use a USB power source, so I can power the EL wire up with a…

(seems like I just decided to call my drip cave project “MegaHits” huh?) I spend about an hour painting the box, half a day waiting it to dry, and I installed the colour film this afternoon Before I paint my box I decided to wear complete black to prevent ink from destroying my white clothing,…

This week I spent some time planning out the base of my design. I started by creating an SVG file in Illustrator which will be used to make laser cuts. This included drawing a path for all the LED strips to follow, and then turning this path into a 0.2 inch channel, as shown below….

Hi, here is a short update on my light art project. The gas mask has arrived and I successfully installed the sound-sensitive converter into the gas mask. The clearance inside was enough for the converter to fit in after I remove the front shell. For the wiring, there are two wires that go out from…

Progress All parts printed Electronics assembled Basic programming done Problems and difficulties Shocked the top half of the heart didn’t fail It doesn’t fit 🙁 The core is also an uncomfortably tight fit Some of the light settings don’t show very well Fixing All the Stuff Edited the bottom half heart to shift the fit…

This week I put together all of the prism modules which are the last of the functional components. I began to experiment with the different prisms and lasers and noticed that the beams are visible inside of the prisms but not outside. My plan is to get either dry ice or a fog machine to…

Test Code Results Failures My main failure was ordering the wrong part to step up 3V to 5V to power the neopixels. I ordered a step down converter by mistake> Until I have the correct part, I cannot power them with the battery alone.

This week I continued wrangling with the feedback to make it more light-painty. This took longer than I thought, as working with WebGL can be pretty annoying. I did succeed in a few key areas: I found a webcam and turned off auto-exposure, so now I can determine the exposure better. Now bright lights stick…

Last week I was able to get the sound working and synced with the light animation. The first version of the code was a complete mess and I was not able to make the light and audio work together because the strategy I used was incorrect. In my second rewrite, I used the independent mode…

Hi, this is my update on the breath-visualizing wearing light art project. The first problem I wanted to deal with is the fact that multiple EL wires connecting to a single converter are not as bright as a single EL wire connecting to a single converter. Top: 5V converter, bottom: 12V converter. A comparison in…

This week, I looked into figuring out the frequency reading for my sound sensor, as this is a key portion of my project. While I could properly track the amplitude sensed by the sound sensor, I did not get any closer to finding frequency until this week. I looked at various ideas, and returned to…

Hardest Part of Project For my project, I knew initially the type of design I wanted. But in general the biggest issue I’ve run into is a lack of experience. So I’ve been trying to get insight before I start something I haven’t tried before. The hardest part of my project was going to be…