Summary of experiments with IR beam detection.
Initial testing with Radio Shack sensors and IRremote library: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=4027
musical stairs project
Built by students at Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine 2013.
Detects movement on stairs using individual IR sensor pairs on each step. When an IR beam is broken, a note is triggered and status LED lights up. Using an Ethernet shield, the data is tracked in a feed at xively.com
materials
Adafruit IR emitters and receivers
https://www.adafruit.com/products/157
https://www.adafruit.com/product/388
construction of sensor units
IR transmitters and receivers wired into terminal strips (no soldering):
transmitting unit:
schematic:
receiving unit:
schematic:
layout of stairs
Arduino connections and code
code:
[wpdm_file id=19]
(local file: musicalStairsVersion3tz2)
notes
- bi-directional communication between Arduino and xively.com feed https://reactivemusic.net/?p=11970
- “Live” data from feed: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=5163
- IR beam testing https://reactivemusic.net/?p=4027