In Class Project - LED Sensor Board

DOCUMENTATION
CONCEPT
Prior to begin a project there is a research phase for what it is that you want to do and explore. This being the first time really going at and creating with the arduino, finding something new and interesting to develop was key.

The concept found to be of most interest was the idea of using LEDs as sensors. Most forums explained how using LEDs in this way was not a well known process while briefly touching on the non-reliability of the LED as a senor as well (with today having much more advanced devices for that function). With curiosity at its greatest a small rough draft was created and played with to make accusations of our own.

Further development of this project would be determined by a mutual attraction of creating a make-shift touch pad out of numerous LEDs, that (once constructed) would create a desired visual in some form.

The Process

After developing the LED as a sensor the next step was connecting the arduino to processing; and once in processing, using the LEDs “sensor” abilities to create a visual on the computers screen. Following, the next challenge would be to go beyond a single line of LEDs, to create something more grid like.
The final visual was constructed in a 3D format; where the connection with hand location was clearly conveyed to have an affect on the visual appearance.

What was then displayed in the class presentation was a box designed for the arduino

Sources
http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Workshop/LED_Sensing.html
bidirectional_led_sensing.html
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ledtouch/
http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Workshop/LED_Sensing.html
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/LEDSensor
http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/
http://www.freeduino.org/
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ShiftIn

Documentation should include:

CONCEPT, CHALLENGE, CRITIQUE, FINAL, COMPONENTS