CURIOUS and FURIOUS
For this Project I drew inspiration from Alexander Calder’s work. His work usually is powered by a motor so it seemed fit to power my own Calder-inspired mobile using a motor as well. My installation rotates back and forth slowly when you touch the lemon--yes, there is a lemon acting as a conductor. The lemon is being used as a simple conductor because it has a nice bright color, has a nice shape to place your hand over, and has a pleasant texture, all towards making the interaction more enjoyable and interesting. Finally, if you hold the lemon for over 10 seconds, the mobile will spin back and forth quickly, making dissonant sounds and movement watch the video of it in action here: https://youtu.be/hzACUTVp44k.
Wide shot of the installation. | “Untitled”, Alexander Calder, 1937 |
Close up of paper-clip wire knots. | Close up of hole for the wires to go through. |
Close up on the “capacitive lemon”. | Close up from the bottom of the stand. |
Code
import time, threading, random from adafruit_crickit import crickit def startCurious():
crickit.touch_1.value time.sleep(3)
motor_angle = 0 increase = False
while True:
start_touch = time.time() start_anger = start_touch + 10
while crickit.touch_1.value:
threading.Timer(1.0, lambda:print("timer: {}".format(int((time.time()-start_touch) % 60)))).start() if time.time() >= start_anger: crickit.servo_1.angle = motor_angle motor_angle = (motor_angle + 90) % crickit.servo_1.actuation_range sleep_val = 0.1*random.randint(1,5) print("sleep val: {}".format(sleep_val)) time.sleep(sleep_val) else: if ((motor_angle % 180) == 0): increase = not increase val = 5 if increase else -5 motor_angle += val crickit.servo_1.angle = motor_angle time.sleep(0.1) def main(): print("Hello! DET2019 Servo Test: Starting!") #print something nice! crickit.servo_1.angle = 0 #set motor to angle '0' startCurious() if __name__ == '__main__': main() |