The last project I developed the first week of Physical Computing was Mimicry, together with Dean McNamee. It is a lamp that imitates the color that is captured by an ‘eye’.<\/p>\n
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Here the video of the prototype:<\/p>\n
<\/object><\/p>\nA color sensor reads the color of the object placed against it, and wirelessly transfers the data to the lamp, that gently shifts from its current color to the object’s one.<\/p>\nWe developed a DIY sensor, really effective and fast enough for this project. A RGB led shines alternating red, blue and green light out of the eye. The reflected light for each channel is measured with a photoresistor. Once the three channels are known, the hue of the object is computed and transferred using XBee to the lamp.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\nWe added some red led’s to the group of RGB led’s, since this channel was slightly weaker than the others. We also used a sandblasted acetate sheet to diffuse the light.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWe used wood to build the eye’s housing, and foamboard for the Arduino’s box.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSome more pictures about this project here<\/a>.<\/p>\nTweet<\/a><\/div><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last project I developed the first week of Physical Computing was Mimicry, together with Dean McNamee. It is a lamp that imitates the color that is captured by an ‘eye’. Here the video of the prototype: A color sensor reads the color of the object placed against it, and wirelessly transfers the data to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[63,67],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciid","tag-arduino","tag-mimicry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A color sensor reads the color of the object placed against it, and wirelessly transfers the data to the lamp, that gently shifts from its current color to the object’s one.<\/p>\n
We developed a DIY sensor, really effective and fast enough for this project. A RGB led shines alternating red, blue and green light out of the eye. The reflected light for each channel is measured with a photoresistor. Once the three channels are known, the hue of the object is computed and transferred using XBee to the lamp.<\/p>\n
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We added some red led’s to the group of RGB led’s, since this channel was slightly weaker than the others. We also used a sandblasted acetate sheet to diffuse the light.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWe used wood to build the eye’s housing, and foamboard for the Arduino’s box.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSome more pictures about this project here<\/a>.<\/p>\nTweet<\/a><\/div><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last project I developed the first week of Physical Computing was Mimicry, together with Dean McNamee. It is a lamp that imitates the color that is captured by an ‘eye’. Here the video of the prototype: A color sensor reads the color of the object placed against it, and wirelessly transfers the data to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[63,67],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciid","tag-arduino","tag-mimicry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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We used wood to build the eye’s housing, and foamboard for the Arduino’s box.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSome more pictures about this project here<\/a>.<\/p>\nTweet<\/a><\/div><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last project I developed the first week of Physical Computing was Mimicry, together with Dean McNamee. It is a lamp that imitates the color that is captured by an ‘eye’. Here the video of the prototype: A color sensor reads the color of the object placed against it, and wirelessly transfers the data to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[63,67],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciid","tag-arduino","tag-mimicry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ishback.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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