Fading Forest
Technical Proposal
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Platforms
1. Tree Structures (Ground & Ceiling) for the physical platform
2. Using Global Forest Watch online platform for obtaining factual and statistics(towards installation display).
The information will be stored in a CVS file.
3. Arduino to Max MSP for sound output through the surrounding sound speakers in ACW 013.
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Software and Hardware Essentials
Arduinos
Laptop
Ground & Ceiling Trees
Spotlights - ACW 103
NeoPixel Strips
Led Strips
Acrylic Tubes (ground and ceiling)
Acrylic Rods (ground and ceiling)
Servo Motors
Speakers (sound output) - ACW 103
3D printing (for parts of framework) - ACW 103, Bergeron Centre
HC-12 Long Range Transceiver(communication)
Photoresistors (water rep.)
Wires
HeatShrink
Washers
Users
RFID Tags
Cotton Gloves with the RFID tags glued/sewn on them
Neutral Trees (1st Mode)
Neutral (brown neopixel strip and green flower neopixel)
Sound - magical forest
This mode is the initial starting of a calm and peaceful forest for visitor experience.
Chopped (2nd mode)
Neutral (brown neopixel strip and green flower neopixel)(magical forest sounds) -> light turns off on both ceiling and ground (auto) (chainsaw sound is activated) -> two servos bends tree from 0 to 45 degrees (working trees).
Regrowth (3rd mode)
RFID tag tap -> multi-coloured for the ceiling, working and dummy trees (both flower and neopixel strip) (rebirth/regrowth sounds activated) -> servo moves from 45 to 0 degrees -> green (all trees) (both flower and neopixel strip) (returns to magical forest sounds).
Forest Fire (4th mode)
Green (all trees) (magical forest sounds) -> red (all trees and the show lights) (burning, crackling sounds are activated) -> shine light on photoresistors (turns off red show light) (turns off burning sounds) -> green (all trees) (returns to magical forest sound).
Global Forest Watch Data (3.5 - 4.5 mode)
Activated based upon how many trees were destroyed and how many were recovered on the installation -> outputs forest data through based on the countries from Global Forest Watch through lights (flashing) and speakers -> modes continue to activate.
Possible solutions for not having all music playing at once if different modes have been activated.
Chopping and Regrowth Modes
Have the mode of chopping go through each tree one at a time. This would essentially be the second mode after the neutral tree (brown). The magical forest sound from the neutral tree mode is stopped completely once a tree is chopped. Only when someone replants that tree, the regrowth music is activated, then another tree is chopped once the previous tree is green.Therefore, all the music plays for the tree that has been chopped and replanted only. The magical forest sound does not reactivate until all the working trees have been replanted one by one.
Forest Fire Mode
After the visitors get to experience the new green forest cycle for a while (5 minutes), the forest fire mode activates which shuts off the magical forest sound and changes to the burning and crackling sounds.Thereby, all the trees change to red (one after the other). Only when all the trees have been changed to green again, then only the magical forest sound is reactivated.
