Inspired by Daniel Rozin and his mechanical wooden mirror that consists of 830 square pieces of wood, 830 servo motors, control electronics, video camera, computer and a wooden frame.
( Interactive art with wooden mirrors - The wooden mirror (1/4) - YouTube ) I have decided to apply that idea on architecture and create a water-mimicing surface using solar pannels.
As a part of my technical dissertation I would have to test the idea and actually build a prototype that I plan to be much smaller than the Daniel Rozin one. I would like to try creating a version that has only 4-10 surfaces that could work with different colour variations and still get each one of them to change its possition according to that.
As I have never done any computing or used servo motors I would really appreciate any help that you can give me on that:
What type of survers would you suggest I use?
What type of camera if that matters (mainly the size is a concern I think due to the smaller scale of what I want to try to build)
Any refferences I could look at?
Any comments on the programming part?
Is anyone also providing classes or payed tutorials in London area as the project is urgent?