Here’s a fun, useful project from AndrewRMidkiff via Instructables:
I created this project for the Computational Sculpture Project in my Physical Computing Laboratory class in my junior year at Albert G. Lane Technicial High School. I partnered with Jannet Morales from the Sculpture class, where she did the art components. The Computational Sculpture project required students to create a diorama in a cardboard box that used LED lights and motors to change based on changes in real-time data related to pollution. We decided to make our project a room of a house that would change based on the levels of air pollution to depict a happy and clean environment and then change to a dark and scary environment, because that mirrors what happens with pollution in real life. The main subject of the project is the Flower Guy, and his head can rotate from kind and happy to scary and unnerving, and there are overhead LED lights that will change from green to purple.
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