Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Animation with Arduino

Animated Jumping Grasshopper!

After the "blink" sketch, this was my first arduino project.  I used the littleBits Arduino module to make 6 led's blink in sequence, which I think is a great way to animate a museum display or diorama.

I have been thinking a lot about how animals, dinosaurs, people, and bugs move.  In particular, I wanted to find out how a grasshopper jumps, so I found a great slow motion video that shows just that.  I included a clip of it here in my project video: