Get ready for art and wearable tech created by someone from my hackerspace–artist Jacob Rivkin. Jacob’s focus of places and memory is nicely summed up on his site:
An affirmation: Landscapes are portable.
His project Lighthouse combines footprint with colorspace and memory. An Arduino data-logger and color sensor are mounted in a wooden block attached to a boot called Memorandum for Walking (Chroma). The color of the ground is captured and played back through a wooden box of LEDs that projects color onto a wall in real-time. It’s a curious way to discover a place through color, especially considering most people focus on what they see at eye level.
What I like most about this work is the combination of natural materials with tech, reminding me of the work done by MIT’s research group High-Low Tech. This is also the most inventive use of color capture that I’ve seen. If you would like to incorporate color sensing into your next project, take a look at our learning guide for these sensors. Whether you work in wearables or art, you can create a project that collects data and even reacts to color. What will you do with color?
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
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