Who am I/we?
I am a student, in a team of 3, at Hyper Island in Sweden and we have an exhibition coming up in 2 weeks where we will display what we have discovered during our Exploring Technology module.
What would we like to do?
Create a sound and light installation where people can interact with cylinders that will light up once touched and make sounds.
(Image 1 & 2)
Materials Available
Standard Makey Makey
Arduino Starterkit (Uno)
The fourth image is how we imagine the logic should be but would like advice on how we get the two boards to communicate with each other.
Do we physically hook the boards up? Or is it code required? Or both? And if so how?
We guess the logic is
if {Makey Sound activated}
then {Arduino LED on}
But how exactly to do that is where we are stuck
Any advice or links to relevant posts and threads to help us progress would be much appreciated. We have attempted hooking both the Makey and the Arduino up to the cylinder without any luck.
You appeared to have posted without doing even the most basic research.
Edit. Looking at your diagram, it appears that you are under the impression the the MakeyMakey makes sounds
As far as I can see its just an input device
You will need to get the computer in your diagram to make the sounds, or get some additional sound generation hardware to play the sounds, none of your other hardware is capable of playing anything other than beeps
Hey, sorry the impression is that we haven't done any research as we have. We know the Makey itself doesn't make any sounds - the diagram was to show that we want the Makey to activate the sounds (which is currently working) but somehow get it to communicate with Arduino that the sound/button has been activated so the Arduino can light up the LEDs.
We have since tried playing with the idea of getting the Arduino to read keyboard inputs and that way light up the LEDs.
The idea behind the post is to ask if we have understood the logic right or if we are looking at it completely wrong.
