So my initial project about the CO2 emissions in AUT had 13 steps on a timeline you could loop through with key controls. So I’m thinking how am I gonna set my Arduino parts up, to work with my existing concept? This blogpost should tell you about my first steps, trying to figure that out. Connecting the parts—trying to get progress towards the concept of my existing one.
My thoughts creating this code were pretty loose at first. I just wanted to get some kind of input from the potentiometer, without fully knowing what I’d do with it yet. I had the concept of a CO2 visualization in the back of my mind, and I knew I had split the data into 13 time periods earlier, so I figured I’d map the potentiometer to 13 steps and see what happens. It was more about testing how I could interact with the data physically, using whatever tools I had lying around. The code itself is super basic—it just checks if the current step has changed and then sends that info over serial. It felt like a small but useful first step.
Also i integrated a distance modulino already thinking about how i could use this one for my prototype.
With a very basic setup from the library, to get the input of the sensor. I wrote a sketch that just triggers true or false when i move my hand over the sensor. I am thinking about my very first idea of the design week, to trigger an interaction/visualisation when i step on a plate with the shape of the country I want to see the emission data of. Maybe I can go in this direction this time? I want to give you another picture to show you what I mean.
Of course, this will not be realizable now but thinking about the map interaction could be a good concept for the technological boundaries I have set with my pieces I got from the FH.
