Kinect to Grasshopper to Arduino to DMX (part 2)

This is an interactive light installation called “LIGHT MOVES” for the Arup Penguin Pool exhibition on July 25th 2015 in Berlin.
The concept was developed for this event to show how you can create interactive lights with available technology which react on the presence or movement of people. Our motivation was to save energy and to reduce light pollution with this concept since it could be used for illuminated advertising or street lights.
The person in front of the LED wall can aim at the lights to turn them on. Also the colour changes by the distance to the wall. If the distance between the wall and the person is more than 2m the targeted lights turn off.
To realise this project I connected the Xbox 360 3D sensor (Kinect) with Grasshopper for Rhino using the firefly kinect function. To address the DMX LED stripes I used the firefly serial write function in grasshopper to send values to an Arduino. On the Arduino I used parts of the tinkerit DmxSimple code with a conceptinetics DMX shield which is connected with the INSTA DMX-LEDTRIX Gateway to control the 30 LED stripes (INSTA DMX-LEDTRIX). Each of these LED stripes is separated in 5 segments which can be addressed over DMX separately.
Music: YES WE BRACE - QUICKSAND
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www.fireflyexperiments.com/
www.grasshopper3d.com/
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