Hello world of adruino
I've been thinking about adruino for a long time but never had a project in mind worth implementing.
I finally got an idea for an art project/sculpture that I want to construct, so I started looking into what I need for the electronics.
The sculpture will have some LEDs to self-illuminate and a speaker. I want the board to switch both on and off(speaker just needs to play one constant frequency), based on a binary pattern.
The logic is fairly straight forward and I've already written a sketch in processing to illustrate the result I want. But of course as I am a fresh starter with adruino I have a bunch of questions.
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Which board should I choose?
I am sure the Uno will be able to control the LEDs, but what about the speaker? Will I need a shield like Adafruit Wave Shield for that? As I said I don't really need to play an audio file, but just a constant frequency. Plain noise will do fine as well. -
I want the final piece to have enough LEDs to illuminate a plexiglass objects from within (the size of a street cone), so it needs to be bright enough. I guess I could use an LED strip (or maybe a different type of light source?). I don't know much about electronics, so I am wondering if there is anything else to consider, in terms of voltage etc.
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Looking at the specs of Uno, it has 32 KB of flash memory. I assume that's where the software and any data will be loaded right? Or is the code loaded into the EEPROM? As I mentioned earlier, the code is fairly small (1-2kb right now in processing), but the binary data sequence I want to drive the LEDs with is more than 100kb. If I really need to load all this data, should I be looking to another board with more memory, or even an SD card slot?
thank you
Georgios
