First of all, I changed my topic again. Now, it is about creating an “immersive” experience of the nature of my country, Kazakhstan. I just miss home and got inspired after listening to some Kazakh songs. For this project, I am using a potentiometer to change the backgrounds and a ZX detection sensor to move a horse on the screen and change the colour of led lights from green to yellow, so that there could be an interactive experience with the environment.
Generally, I could finish the main functionality part of the program, and establish the communication between p5js and Arduino. However, I keep having struggles with the working of the led strip. I tried to solder it many times, but it keeps falling off (and the strip is becoming shorter and shorter). I asked for help, but although it seemed that the connection was good, it still remains unresponsive to the code. During the weekends, I worked with a soldered led strip, which is much shorter, sorry but one of the wires fell off just yesterday……So, now it does not work either, although I created a code based on it. A ZX detection sensor is another story. Theoretically, it is a really fun and useful sensor with endless possibilities… but it keeps giving me random values, which makes it complicated to control.
I asked my friend to test the program so that I could have a clear view of some new additions and changes to the program. Firstly, I need to add instructions. The second thing is to adjust my sensor. Also, she asked me if I could add more interaction with the sensor, I will think about it when it starts to normally work without creating a messy picture 😀 Yet she loved the design and the music in the background.