RGB Wheel

Final Project : Art & Electronics

After some many hours of soldering and couple of burnt fingers, the final project is complete. 

The paradigm that occurs with skill acquisition has several distinct characteristics; most notably the effect prior knowledge can have on the form, content, applicability, and belief in a hypothesis. Anything barring the title of Traditional is subject to this paradigm. As such, these different standards inhibit further progress and innovation. This project aims to address this concept of the traditional, the very core of the influence of prior knowledge, and turn it on its head, in the head. 

Automatically, the piece is expected to produce a aural cue based on the identification of the piano keys. Instead, the system attempts to present the spectrum as a compilation of its three component parts - red, green, and blue.

Each pod has binary wiring to account for the over 21 input streams and reduce them to a manageable eight to allow for the Arduino microcontroller to send the proper serialized signal to the RGB matrix.

Each key represents a certain intensity of a component color and "mixes" with the others to produce yellow (high red, high green), teal (high blue, high green), magenta (high red, high blue), and every color in between. 

The modular design is an abstraction of the Aztec sun calendar.