Passage
Art installation piece for the Ontario Place Winter Lights festival 2020.
- Date
- February 2020
- Role
- Hardware & Lighting Engineer
- Tags
- Arduino, C++, LED, Light Effects, Ultrasound Sensors, Hardware, IOT
Art installation piece for the Ontario Place Winter Lights festival 2020.
Passage is a journey through struggle, intention, transformation and illumination. A metallic structure invites visitors to pass through converging on them along the way. The centre point is a moment of tension, resolving as travellers cross over. Passage rewards travellers who persist with a show of light.
Implementation
Arduino sketch written in C++ for the passage art lights installation for the Ontario Place Winter Lights festival 2020.
The Arduino controls 2 LED strips and an Ultrasonic sensor. The LED strips transmit light through fibre optic cables that are woven into the installation, creating a mosaic of lights that blends cool and warm tones. The ultrasonic sensor is used to detect when an audience member passes through the installation and a display of pulsing lights are fired through the fibre optics to dazzle the audience.
Technologies Used
Arduino, Adafruit_NeoPixel library, Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip, Fibre Optics
Project Credits
- Creative Direction: Anthony Furia, Aaron Wong, David Nuff, Kevin Meric, Issac Strange, Hugo Flammin
- Design Concepts: Anthony Furia, Aaron Wong, Kevin Meric, Hugo Flammin
- Installation Design / Production: Kevin Meric, Hugo Flammin
- Hardware Development / Sensor Interactions / Lighting: Aaron Wong
- Graphic Design: Anthony Furia, David Nuff
- Project Coordinator: Issac Strange