[ELECTRON] Underpass lighting project query

[Martin McGrath]

Would you really need two Megas?

On 29 November 2010 16:48, Ben Dembroski <ben at dembroski.net> wrote:

> 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/
> >
>
>
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