PhysComp Week #8

For Project 2, I decided to go with a completely different idea than the one I discussed in class. I was originally going to do a game controller, but I decided to do a project involving IR Sensors that change a slideshow in P5. The idea is that there would be a slideshow playing on a screen that has two indexes.

The first is of natural landscapes before human damage and the second set of images is of the same place after human interference. The before pictures, or the "good" images would be sliding on a timer. In front of the screen will be a pot of flowers where the IR Sensors will be hidden. I assumed that upon seeing something like that most people would have the urge to reach out and touch the flowers, upon which the slideshow would change to the second set of images with the "bad" landscapes. When the IR Sensors are not being triggered it'll return to the "good" images. 

This project is to show how we as humans see beauty and have an innate desire to reach out and touch it and be a part of it and that we have to take responsibility for the role we play in habitat destruction and deforestation. I'm hoping the initial moment of the picture changing (if someone doesn't know anything about the project) would be shocking and impactful and really make people think about how it's important to admire beauty without feeling a need to interact or own it. 

I am attaching 8 IR Sensors around the pot to make sure that no matter which angle you come in from something should happen. I have set up the breadboard, the Arduino code, and the P5 code, but the IR Sensors are running late on Amazon's shipping so I haven't been able to hook them up and properly test the project. They should come today or tomorrow and I'll be able to have the completed project for next week. Below are my schematics and diagrams.


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