Blackout Poetry

For this project, I began by choosing an article. I decided to choose an article from The New Yorker called the Serial Killer Detector. My inspiration for the words I blacked out and highlighted came from computer science because the article discusses a new computerized serial killer detector, so I used 0’s and 1’s to blackout the words I didn't want to see. Representing binary in the computer, and the dotted lines I used represent web maps that criminal investigators use to find suspects and murders. After creating my design, I mapped my circuit out on a blank piece of paper with pen, marking each light point and circuit point. When mapping out my circuit I ran into an issue with my ground because I made a series circuit lighting up 14 lights and only two grounds on my chibi-chip. In order to reorganize my drawing, I used my ground one to light chambers one and two and my second ground to light the remaining chambers. After, I placed copper tape on my pre-cut wood panel and programed my code for my chibi-chip. I built my code based off of the blink example on chibitronic.com, I programed my chip to blink in the order of 0,1,5,4,3,2. After I cut out my window layer on the laser cutter, along with my stand and battery pack. Next I glued my stand and, battery pack together; then velcroed my battery pack to my circuit board. I used glue dots to stick my circuit board and window layer together, in addition to glue dots I used spray glue adhesive to stick my article scan and top layer together. Finally I used more glue dots to put my whole project together, and replaced my laptop with a portable battery to power my blackout poetry.