Getting Started with Arduino & Lights
Introduction
Are planning to add light to your work?
Do you want the light source in your installation to be controlled by sensor data?
Are you curious about the possibilities of programming lights with Arduino?
During this station skill, you will be introduced to some standard methods of programming lights with Arduino.
Arduino is a microcontroller that makes it easy for us to work with different kinds of hardware like lights, motors and a wide array of sensors. During this station skill, we will use it to work with lights.
We will do this during three sessions, each one focused on working with different kinds of lights: LEDs, LED strips and light bulbs.
Station Skill schedule
Week: 16
Date Fri 21 Apr 2023
Time 09:00-12:00
Arduino & LEDs
Week: 17
Date Fri 28 Apr 2023
Time 09:00-12:00
Arduino & LED strips
Week: 19
Date Sat 13 May 2023
Time 09:00-12:00
Arduino & Relays
Session 1
What can you do with it?
Examples
- Soliloquy, Tromarama, 2018
- wave is my nature, vtol, 2015
- Game of me, Xuanning Chen
- Healer, Pamela Ronsenkranz
- Alain Le Boucher's light sculptures
- lamp
Arduino and LEDs
The LED
What is an LED? LED is short for light emitting diode. LEDs come in different colors, and the differenc eis determined by
Arduino: how does it work
board
Connecting the LED to Arduino
breadboard
Programming the LED
blink, delay, fade
LEDs traffic light
LED Morse code
Resources/More
Arduino reference page more leds : series parallel circuit, calculating resistance
Session 2
Arduino and LED strips
Examples of work
Types of strips
addressable, rgb, one color
Calculate the current
Connecting the LED strip to Arduino
Programming the LED strip
color, intensity, for loop
Session 3
Arduino and Relays: how to control light bulbs (and not only)
Examples of work
The Relay
Connecting the Relay and the light bulb to Arduino
Programming the relay
Add a distance sensor
