arduino

Late last year, the lovely Capsule people asked me to play the Cake Orchestra at one of their events. A bit of refactoring, soldering and baking later, the Cake Orchestra v3 was born. 

The Cake Orchestra uses an Arduino to take analogue readings from a set of light-dependent resistors (LDRs). These happen to be hidden under a set of cakes.

The readings are piped from Arduino into Processing, which uses the Sound Cipher library to generate noises. Each set of cakes has an instrument assigned to it, and each instrument is played at a pitch that reflects the amount of light hitting the LDR.