LED Light Assignment #1
In the first assignment/project: “Bending the Light”, I want to create a heartbeat inspired light composition. While creating the composition, I listen to different heartbeat soundtrack online to mimic the heartbeat for my light composition. I started the project with the gathering of materials because I want to utilize objects to enhance the experience of the light composition and there are many empty little containers that I had in my dorm room. Of course, I need to connect my LEDs to the Arduino and the power supply and below is my circuit placement.
I found this little sauce container from my last wai-mai. In order to fit the LED strip inside the container, I simply curve the strip into a circle and cut out a hole from the side so I can put the strip inside from the outside. Also, I found these leftover LED and I thought they can be a good addition to the light bending theme of my assignment. I cut out the metal wire part so that only the glass/plastic part is left which is all I needed.
Below is a video when I tested out the light effect inside the container with the little LED. Since the light is combined with three different color Red Green and Blue, the LED bulb actually distort each individual lights. You can sort of seeing the individual lights reflection on the LED bulb.
The biggest problem while creating the composition is the strength of the soldering. Everything I moved around it break apart and I had to solder back again. For this specific composition, I should have made it into a 2 min composition and pay more attention to the processing of making the composition.
LED Light Assignment #2
For this second assignment “The Christmas Tree 🎄 “, I wanted to have the experience to sync the light with a music piece of my choice which is what other people did in their previous assignment. This allows me to focus on specific musical elements such as melody that inspire me to create a light composition. So I choose a Christmas themed music called Pho Vang Em Roi by Hung Vu to create a Christmas themed light composition. Since I have leftover chopsticks, so I decided to make a Christmas tree structure that I can surround my strip with.
For the composition, I adopt the method from the previous assignment that we did for having three different colors of light passing from one side to another and one doing the reverse at the same time. Having one LED strip is not enough for this so I got another one and solder them into one. Last, I decorated it with papers and put some leftover LEDs to amplify the light a little just like I did in assignment 1.