Moving Forward

The installation brought up a few concerns that need to be addressed. The rope pulley device was not functioning due to a few things: lack of balance, too much friction along rope itself and too much weight from device combined with a weak motor. I tried reduce the friction and got the device balanced but the motor still wasn't powerful enough. Another thing that has come up is the quickness of the switching in the circuit makes the change in the motor direction unnoticeable. Flower recommend perhaps using a capacitor to carry a charge to the motor so when the switch activates it, the motor keeps going even though another switch directs it another way. I envision the Arduino helping tremendously on this as well. A new strategy is to perhaps alter placement of switches and look back at some of the independent movement produced in the studio before.

Looking towards further development i thought i would explore the use of a three way switch, one which mimics the structure of the device and can be repeated to create a skin. The repetition of the switch can cause a series of connection that will always change depending on the movement of the skin.