Light and Interactivity : Apple Lamp with Apple Image Classification 🍎

Aiming to control a hue hub at ITP with ML5, I was continuing from last week by learning to use ML5 and Image Classification with an apple to send a serial to my Arduino to turn on the LED.

After that I tried to change the hue of the LED strip at ITP with the ML5 via Arduino and p5 serial control.

Here is the like to the sketch : https://editor.p5js.org/Jay_a_n/sketches/oPHAvT_5D
Anyway, after running the code, Arduino mentioned that the port was error ( Port busy ) and I realized that it might use the same port to receive serial from p5 at the same time?

Getting pretty lost after that, especially after checking Tianjun’s block, I escaped a bit and went back to find Neopixel that Tom gave us for candle project to see if I can play with hue or dim with Neopixel instead. Unfortunately, when I ran the basic sample bink with it the Neopixel didn’t work anymore…and even though, I still got the 12V bulb but got no ac adaptor to play with it.

BUT with my strong will of getting something done for this week! I gathered some materials to see what I have that could at lease finish the little LED as a lamp. I’m actually love origami and used to do it a lot before so I got back and make one small origami cover for my LED.

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Here is the video of me using an apple to light my apple lamp

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Also my lighting moment :)

My next step after this is I will check on Tianjun project to try to write my script in all Javascript or html. I also want to try more sensor that can help me to track better movements like Kinect to control HUE/DMX light and try TouchDesigner or MaxMSP.