Physical Computing Final (Stoplight)

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Matt Vasquez

Physical Computing Final

1.) Music/LED Sync

The circuit I had in mind required required a simple 3 LED and resistor setup. Each LED represented a different instrument or tone in the beat of the music.

It would work so that a MP3 file would connect to 2 Processing files I used called BeatWrite and BeatListen. And by using the Arduino Software Library able be able to connect the software to the hardware and the LEDs would play in sync to the music.

However after dealing with port issues for both my laptop and school computers, I eventually got port issues figured out. But I soon found out the code was not functioning well enough. I ended up spending to much time trying to figure it out and had to abandon the project.

2.) Arduino Timed Stoplight

My newer project had a similar concept of circuitry. But due to lack of time I had thought of a simpler project. A timed stop light with a button to stop the light at red. I has acquired inspiration from my previous mid-term of timing LEDs.

I wanted to originally use the button and speaker to have voice indicating pedestrians to "wait" at a green light and "go" at right. But once again due to lack of time, I had converted to using the button to stop the light instead.