Examples of Electronic/Mechatronic/Opto-electronic Art

All of these examples are areas that can be explored with the equipment available for ECE2883HPC. Some might be too advanced to produce similar results. Some are too simple, in that they only use a small number of lights or actuators, but ECE2883HPC we will actually use from dozens to hundreds. Also, relatively few of these have sensors, but in ECE2883HPC there will be an emphasis on human interaction through some sensing mechanism.

Light cube

Sand patterns - One transducer has been done. Think dozens.

LED painting

Dynamic shape display - Way hard, but worth thinking about as a direction.

Dancing Oobleck - Also think bigger than just one.

Water displays

Dancebot

Bubble Display

Mechanically-scanned Laser

Variations on Flip-Disc Displays

Robotic Plants