Interactive Lighting with Arduino
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Interactive Lighting X5: Strategies for controlling lighting.
Description
With the ubiquity of LED lighting installations - artists and designers are looking at ways of introducing interactive elements to light based works. This class is intended to demonstrate methods and technologies to interface and create ones own responsive light art works. Using the open source Arduino as our platform, over the course of 5 weeks, participants will learn how to use sensor information to effect their light pieces. By using various electronic components and techniques we will demonstrate how to expand the outputs of the Arduino. We will cover the DMX lighting control standard in depth - offering strategies for building responsive lighting systems with off the shelf DMX controllable fixtures. By the end of the class, participants will produce their own interactive lighting project.
Requirements:
- Each participant should have their own laptop with the latest copy of Arduino and Processing installed. These can be downloaded from http://www.arduino.cc and http://www.processing.org respectively.
- Participants should also have their own Arduino basics kits with any sensors and lighting fixtures they may be interested in using.
- They are expected to have basic knowledge of Arduino and programming - or at least completed an intro class.
Arduino kits:
- http://www.oomlout.co.uk/arduino-starter-kit-ardx-p-183.html
- http://www.oomlout.co.uk/arduino-budget-pack-ardb-p-217.html
We will provide a DMX shield as a part of the course.
