This tutorial is used to improve an important part of our narrative process, the core component of attention transfer, the light strip control. We have no experience with Arduino control circuits, especially the design and manufacture of control circuits with different voltages, and there is a lack of safety design principles. We quickly realized that we needed strong support and guidance to help us complete a reliable circuit and light strip controller safely and quickly. So we quickly booked Connor’s tutorial and talked to him about our needs. He introduced us to the relays and circuit fabrication EMS has for this purpose. We also reached a consensus with him, that is, to complete the software control system and buy our light strips (Connor recommends to buy it by yourself, considering that the price of EMS unified procurement is relatively expensive). Then in the next week’s tutorial, he helped us make the circuit. With Connor’s help, we quickly completed the transformation of the entire light strip switch system. And in the Touchdesigner project I made before, the light strip control system works well.
The code of the Arduino Board
With simple serial print, we can easily control the strip light off/on with a minor delay, which also easy to be integrated into our animation control system of another project file of Touchdesigner.