[ELECTRON] Underpass lighting project query

[Ben Dembroski]

Honestly, I dunno.

I would entirely depend on how many lights and how many sensors you
would be using.

Two is probably overkill.



On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 22:09 +0000, Martin McGrath wrote:
> 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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