[ELECTRON] Underpass lighting project query

[Ben Dembroski]

Hi Roy,

More off the cuff thoughts...

I was thinking about this again this morning, & I'm pretty sure you can
do this with an array for passive infra-red sensors and either a shift
register or a couple of Arduino Mega's.   (One to read the array, and
one to control the lighting.) Mostly, it would depend on the area you
would be looking to monitor. 

I would imagine there are plenty of suitable, weather / vandal resistant
sensors that would work out of the box.

Best,
Ben


On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 15:19 +0000, Roy Mohan Shearer wrote:
> Thanks for all your replies so far, will have a good look at them all tomorrow.
> 
> re: lights stalking you, that is a good point Andrew! Our initial
> thought was that it would be reassuring to have a sense of the space
> being 'aware' of your presence, and having some forewarning of other
> peoples' presence might be useful. But it is something we would have
> to consider carefully if we go down this route. I find these kind of
> problems really interesting in that there is a quality to how things
> are programmed ('aesthetic programming' perhaps?) that can make the
> difference between an idea like this being friendly or just being
> really spooky. Hence looking for a skilled coder!
> 
> re: OpenKinect, Kenny - would love to, but doubt it's quite right for
> this project! Anyone here got anything to share in the world of
> OpenKinect, got one, hacked one, got any good links?
> I came across this interesting summary of various initial hacks:
> http://www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/kinect-one-week-later-processing-of-cinder-maxmsp/
>