Light & Interactivity : week 1 Observation Assignment

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An oldie but a good one. Fall light in Midtown, NYC.
Time of the days is around 3pm, light reflection is coming from north to south. I was walking from East to West in the North side of the street.

I wanted to share this photo because this is one of my favorite lighting moments. The reflections of the sun always cast a nice soft light (Low Luminous Intensity)specially in the winter. The sun is cast on some interesting window shaped and the reflections is a magical moment.


Also, Fun Fact below. Saw in a state park in Hawaii.


  • Observation Assignment: Candlelight. Make a 00:30 – 1:30 min. video
Time of the day 5:15pm. Which was already dark ( January 28). The light is flickering, creating some soft shadows on the material behind the candle.






Reading:
I was not aware that in Ancient Greece the four primary colors came from the four elements. (Fire, Air, Water and Earth) I liked the mythological connection. It was interesting to read about the color wheel evolution. 
Nice illustration on Circadian rhythm. The test confirmed it I'm 100% a morning type.
Lght is defined as electromagnetic radiation. Photoreceptors drive biological effects that regulate human health.Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) --> ipRCG IIL  - influenced light response.
Fade LED on Arduino NANO

Unfortunately the Arduino NANO did not respond even though I tried troubleshooting it several times, the Port was not reading. 

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x






Fade LED on Arduino UNO

Step 1: Building the circuit for Arduino. For some reason the only time the led light up was when the resistor was on the same hole as the the cathode.


When back to the Arduino Nano, and somehow I set up the board and it worked.




/*
 Linear Fade
 Fades an LED on a linear path
 created by nearly everyone who's used an Arduino
 modified 9 June
 by Tom Igoe
 */

int currentLevel = 0;
int change = 1;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  // put your setup code here, to run once:
  pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
  // add change to brightness:
  currentLevel = currentLevel + change;
  // and constrain to 0-255:
  currentLevel = constrain(currentLevel, 0, 255);
  // if brightness is at either extreme, change the
  // direction of fading:
  if (currentLevel == 0 || currentLevel == 255) {
    change = -change;
  }
  // change the light:
  analogWrite(5, currentLevel);
  delay(10);
  Serial.println(currentLevel);
}



Revised Code


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