RE: Costume light interaction with LSM303 accelerometer

chris.carter — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:19:51 GMT

Leslie,

Thanks for all the encouraging comments. I am saving my magician's flair for the final costume reveal [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5b8fc6b3-a116-4f1d-a133-368278cab56b/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

RE: Costume light interaction with LSM303 accelerometer

zengirl2 — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 15:49:15 GMT

Hey, a good magician never walks on stage and says his trick is boring. There is nothing boring about seeing a computer surrounded by fabric, wires, sensors and LED's -- it's a story that is about to unfold. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-5b8fc6b3-a116-4f1d-a133-368278cab56b/3247.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16] So, I gave this some thought and decided it is kind of like mime. Yes, I actually had some training in this LOL. You know when a mime does the old "I'm stuck behind glass" peformance? He first establishes there is a pane of glass with his hands. Then he pounds on the glass with his hand and shouts as if he is stuck, and finally he is searching the glass to see how big it is until he finally finds a door to walk through. If he only started his gag with the searching along the wall and finding the door, the visuals would not be as interesting or noticeable. That is sort of the similar problem I see here. There is not enough build to get to the change in color from one point to the next. Is it possible that you can include a final fade until the LED's are off? Then it would be:

Baby still - On

Baby on upswing - starts to fade off

Baby at hightest point - Off

Baby on downswing - starts to fade on

Baby lands - On

Or, it might even be more fun to have it fade to a different color, rather than off. Maybe it does mom's color when it reaches the highpoint and dad's color when it lands LOL. It's really funny to think of this in family terms. Anyway, I really like the direction this is headed. Ups and downs are fun!

Les