Light going on and off

Spent Saturday at a digital aesthetics workshop run by Graham Dean of Highwire. In a few short hours he helped a bunch of (not very techie) artists to master basic programming and electronics to the point where we could contemplate taking data from the world and converting it into another creative form. Though many, very exciting things are possible using the Arduino software and hardware, the pinnacle of our day was making set of LEDs go on and off with a motion sensor. Believe me, when you've connected up the components and amended the code yourself, this is very exciting...