My initial thought after the first lecture was to make the led communicate some abstract value to the user. So I thought about things most people have in their home and landed on a router. The router process the traffic between computer and the internet so all data goes through it. Most of us don’t think or pay attention to the router and the data that’s being transferred is even more irrelevant for most of us. I’d like to probe that area and see if I can make the arduino and led represent a small file being transferred or a big file being transferred.
Just like the the transfer can be represented in the software and a progress bar it surely can be represented on a led light. In the figure above the user can estimate that there is more than 50% left to transfer. The question I’m trying to answer is: How can we make the led represent the amount of data that is being transmitted given the small physical size of the led? On the end of this post are some gifs on possible behaviours of that represent the progress of data transfer.
Moreover I have got to think ahead a little bit so I don’t get stuck. The thing to remember is that a more active way of interacting with the arduino is required on the input side but I got the tip from Roel to continue to probe, test different light patterns and behaviours and focus on the input the second week.
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