With the difficulties of the past week I was able to pull it together in the final hours, with help of course. I was able to get the light blinking in unison while the vibration and buzzer was going off. I had to adapt the headset by taking away periphery items which wouldn’t have made much difference to the experience anyway.

This head device which was meant to immerse the user by using input from their hear rate and convert it into light sound and vibration, didn’t really give the experience I was expecting. It was neither intense or soothing. More of a beeping mess

I definitely achieved the LowFi electronic look  with the wires crazily going everywhere and the Arduino and breadboard being held down with electricians tape. I didn’t time to add the fan unfortunately

I feel like the presentation went well as everyone was intrigued by the device. It looks like it would rewire your brain after putting it on so maybe thats why. The franticness of the wires and obscurity of it compared to other artworks could be why. I don’t think I have really met the criteria of the final because it doesn’t really feel like its art. I’ve tried to develop a data narrative but seeing the device doesn’t do what I intended its a bit of a stretch.

POST-VISUALISING DATA
I really want to experiment further with Arduino and processing (although I didn’t get a chance to try it out). I have a couple of ideas while making this device and getting through assignments.

I’ve done some filming work at festivals and find it hard to film during the night without having an invasive light onboard so I was thinking I could make a LED matrix in the shape of a dancer which interacts live with the beat of the music. This way it will make people inquisitive, make them dance and achieve the primary goal of lighting the crowd.

Another thing I want to make to help with productivity is an eye tracking device which follows eye movements when looking towards one of my two computers ( I use one for editing videos and the other for general stuff). Ive found it annoying having to shuffle over keyboards and mouses to quickly switch from one to the other. I would love to be able to use one keyboard and mouse to control two computers without having to plug them back in. Im not sure how this will be possible (it night be a job for processing?) but there would definitely be some kind of tutorial out there. I think this could be a good side project this year to figure out how its done.