I finally have a draft of my design for laser cutting, and I have an appointment at the AMS on Wednesday. After digging around and failing to find wood that seemed appropriate for the project, I’ve decided to prototype the screen with heavy paper. I’m excited (and a little nervous) to see how it will look.The image below is just a small portion of the design.

Laser Cutting Preview

I also got the LED driver working the other day. Tomorrow evening I’ll be working on getting a group of LEDs to behave the way I’d like. Then I’ll work on getting multiple LED groups going.

I’ve been struggling with an appropriate input for this project, but earlier tonight I got an idea. I was walking through Chinatown, and I happened to notice a pile of wooden bead bracelets. I’m going to try threading beads on a stretch sensor and looping it like a bracelet so that each time the user tugs on the bracelet a light is triggered in the display.