Arduino #10 - Glue Stick Lighting

Make a light show with as many LED-glue stick lights as possible. This is an open, creative exercise. You are ready, because you have mastered skills to make lights blink in ordered patterns (blinking wave; binary counting); random patterns (electronic die); pulse width modulation/PWM (changing color; brightening/dimming an LED).

Your Arduino sketch should include routines to

• Flash multiple lights in patterns (easy - Knight Rider 5-light flash up/down)
• Make Brighter/Dimmer
• Change colors with RGB LEDs (fast, slow, fast)
• Try to build your sketches with parameters so you can change them easily to change the lighting effects

Deliverable - 50 points

• Photo of hardware - 0 or 5 points
• 20-30 second video - 0, 10 or 20 points
• Google Doc with sketch with your custom code - 0 or 10 points
• Upload your video to the Shared Google Drive Folder - 0 or 15 points

For students taking Design Thinking II, I asked them to reflect on their first web post consider ways to make their glue stick lighting show more interesting...here are the results: