#arduino art

[i-am-sako]

[moawling]

did you know that our BIG GIANT GAY GAMEBOY has functioning buttons? Please check out our big gay gameboy at FREEPLAY! Richmond, VA’s first queer games exhibit!

Our exhibit is running for six more weeks! Check us out at the Iridian Gallery and support us on Kickstarter

[bitbybitbot]

Stone Computer

Stone computer is one of my most involved and time-consuming projects I have ever made.

The idea and early sketches first came to me around 2020 when I was thinking about what makes our electronic devices feel different from our other objects. Maybe it's a screen, maybe it's a button, maybe it's nothing but a single blinking light and subtle whirring. Any of these indicators can shift an object's perception from something that could be tossed across a room to something that is delicate and thinking; almost treated as alive. I started considering the smallest change needed to turn a thoughtless, solid object into a device, thereby changing how the viewer perceives and interacts with it.

It wouldn't be until four years later in the summer of 2024 when I was finally in a place to start working on this project for real. I was back in my home state of Rhode Island reconnecting with my friends. The previous summer, we had worked on an ambitious project that included teaching ourselves to anodize aluminum and conducting dangerous experiments in our own backyards. I was inspired by the accomplishment of working on and finishing a project like that just through having a vision and an obsessive work ethic, and I wanted to make something new the next summer.

My friend Cooper and I work well together: I study art and design, he studies electrical and computer engineering, and we share a strange abstract wavelength of thinking. It was the perfect pairing to make the stone computer a reality. We started with sketches designing what we wanted our computer to do. We made prototypes and tests as we went starting with the form made of chicken wire, the exterior sculpted from concrete, and finally inserting the electronic components and coding the machine.

The final piece is an interactive sculpture that generates a combination of odd words fed to the machine by Cooper and myself. Pressing the button flashes an LED indicator light and shows a new cryptic message on the LCD display. The organic shape of the concrete rock and the unique words it spits out give the stone computer a personality.

It is a fun to use and completely non-utilitarian interactive sculpture, and it makes me happy every time I look at it.

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Trying to get back into game dev, so I practiced using the bois

I've made some dating sims as a joke for me and my friends + some actual games in unity but I haven't touched it since that whole debacle last year, so I've been meaning to get into Godot, the only problem is that Godot has their own language and I like using C#, and although they have improved their support for it, all of the tutorials use Godot Script or whatever so I have to actually read the documentation. I miss the unity UI creation and gameobjects, still getting used to the node system

Trying to program their movements is pretty interesting though, rn it's way too smooth but this could work for their alt mode, like when you press and hold shift they can transform into their alt

(Hasboro I'm just practicing on Godot don't sue me)

[rainesaur]

Diplocaulus would be so peak if they let you have them on your shoulders. Have Glorp and Gary

[generativetenebrousautomata]

[furywren]

ghostie arduino chanukiah

for xanuka this year, i made a little electronic chanukiah that i want to share! i know i’m not the only person who can’t do flame-based candles for some reason or another.

this chanukiah is an online simulation that you can run in any web browser, and it is, in my grandiose and objectively correct opinion, better than any other electric chanukiah out there right now.

lots of electric chanukiot do a decent job at emulating the visual appearance of a flame-based chanukiah. the goal with this project was to emulate not only the 🕎visual appearance🕎 of a chanukiah, but also the 🔥ritual experience🔥 of lighting the candles and watching them burn.

some neat features of the ghostie arduino chanukiah:

- candle representation: each candle is represented by a stack of LED lights, and you can make the candles any color you want! if you can express it with a hex code, it’s a valid candle color. there’s also two bonus gradient patterns.

- lighting the candles: you press a button to light the shamash, then you light each candle that you want by moving a slider that lights up its light sensor.

- watching the candles burn: after a candle is lit, the top LED begins to flicker like a flame! and after that, the candle slowly and semi-randomly begins to burn down- the top LED goes dark, and the next one in the stack begins to flicker, and so on, until the light goes out at the bottom of the stack.

- clean up: all the candles will burn out on their own over the course of 30-ish minutes(plus or minus like, 20. i should really optimize the burn pattern a little, lol). after that, you can stop the simulation and reset it for the next night.

it works great on both mobile and desktop, so put it on whatever device you want. a note for mobile users: instructions for use are in the “code” tab, on the top right!

check it out at: https://wokwi.com/projects/353600148292695041

[futurebird]

Making 32 bespoke hand crafted bits.

Hand made bits are so much nicer than store-bought bits.

In the early days of woven core memory they sent it off to women to weave because the dudes took one look at it and thought “this is girl stuff like sewing and weaving”

I find this hilarious.

Here is a link (cued to the time where it starts) of the best and most clear explanation of how core memory works. Reading & writing a bit has many steps!

I always felt there was something poetic about how one must destroy this kind of memory in order to read it. Observation is never passive... to observe a system is to change it...

[i-am-sako]

[forrrrrrrest]

My final project for my art and technology class! We were told to imagine that disaster struck the world, and we were forced to live in a bunker for 12 years, but after that we were able to live in the earth again. We had to make a museum as a class, and show what happened during the time in the bunker.

I created 12 flowers to show the 12 years, and they start out looking very flower like, and turn into mutated monsters.

This is the sunflower, the most flowery of all of the flowers. I used neopixel strips to light up the center of it, to show to hope in the beginning.

the next two are the hydrangea made out of bottle caps, and the lavender made out steel and rubber wire. These still look like flowers, and are modeled after actual flowers.

The first one is made out of plastic bags, the second is made out of tinfoil and cut up cds. These two are not modeled after actual flowers, and I focused more on the material than looking like a flower.

This is the rose, it is made out paper cups painted with water color, and covers the arduino. (that’s why it has wires coming out of it). This is my favorite flower, and I’m really happy with how well it turned out.

This is the clock. It has bits of most of the other flowers on it, and all the flowers have a trail flowing into/out of it. It represents the flow, and stoping of time that happens when you are trapped in a single place for a long time.

Now we are moving on to the weird ones!

One made of feathers (I was running out of ideas and time) and one with eyeballs!

Second post will have the final flowers, and picture of everything! (i hit the picture limit for this post)

[chipperdoodles]

I’ve been working on my personal electronics projects for a while which warrants its own post sometime, but for now have this teaser of my anwaar amulet with trAnsrights faceplate design.

[buoyanttoaster]

I created an Arduino themed Fursona. Her name is UNO!

[generativetenebrousautomata]

[mun-ink]

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[sarverott]

simple LED light brightness controller circuit, using Digispark developement board with ATTINY85 microcontroller. controll with simple push buttons. gist on github: https://gist.github.com/Sarverott/3b352c6c3fe1c3d13f3faf642cc3b23c