Living Architecture Fall 2009 Pratt

This is current map came to be the background for our project.

We have build a successful prototype that was able to receive data trough Pachube and display it with a set of two circuits with red LED's, form which each one displayed data form a different place in the world. First, used a feed form Cambridge University and the second one received the same data category form Syracuse, New York. We have chosen these two places because we have decided that they have provided the best data.

Unluckily we have not realized that those two places have quite similar weather conditions during this time in the year, therefore intensity of light was very similar and it was hard to determine the difference.


Another prototype, which we have worked on as well was the RGB LED circuit that was to change from Blue to REd and back with a certain timing. We have also experimented with other colors but they were not displayed with a good enough clarity and therefore we have decided that blue-red-blue change will not cause the confusion other colors would.

Ideally, two prototypes would be combined and current real-time data form a feed would be compared to the past information (average temperature for that same day x years ago).

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