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Providing the weather on a string of lights

A project log for Smart String Lights

A visual virtual assistant that delivers information through LEDs, and processes audio and data locally so that your privacy is ensured.

nehaNeha 06/13/2021 at 17:040 Comments

One of the big components of our project is our display of weather data. Of course, however, weather data is fairly quantitative, and there isn't necessarily an obvious way to display that data on a string of 50 lights. Figuring out how to intuitively depict the weather in this medium turned out to be a fun challenge for everyone. We started by creating a general-purpose interface for accessing a user's current location, as well as for getting the information we needed from the weather API we were using. From there, each of us took on an aspect of the weather and got to work figuring out how to animate it. 

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