Computational Sculpture | Food Poisoning

Overview

This computational sculpture project is based on real data fluctuations based on an API data source. This 2 partner project included a student from the sculpture class and a student from the physical computing class. The theme for this project is poison and me/my partner interpret this theme in a more objective way. Overall, the project represents a restaurant that opens when the food poisoning cases are below a certain number and vice versa.

Project

The functionality of this project is dependent on the data source. I utilized the New York database and picked an API relating to food poisoning cases at restaurants. The API included a variety of data, however, for this project I used query parameters to get just one specific piece of data from the entirety of the database. I did this by creating a web-hook that would get his one piece of data anytime I call the web-hook in the code pushed to the argon. The data is updated daily and for this project I choose to base it on the previous week's data.

Functionality

• Web-hook is called to get the data from the API using query parameters
• Servo set to 45°
• Neo-pixel lights lite up
• If total food poisoning is less than 57
• The servo turns 45° and the door to the restaurant opens.
• The liquid-crystal display shows the name of the projects restaurant, Which is Vintage Cafe (Chose by me and my partner).
• The liquid-crystal display display also shows "Open".
• If total food poisoning is greater than 57
• The servo turns back to its original position (The door to the restaurant is closed)
• The liquid-crystal display shows the name of the projects restaurant, Which is Vintage Cafe (Chose by me and my partner).
• The liquid-crystal display also shows "Closed".

These are the two methods created to change the state of the liquid-crystal display.

void resturantOpen() {
    lcd->clear();
    lcd->print("  Vintage Cafe  ");
    lcd->setCursor(0,1);
    lcd->print("      Open      ");
    lcd->setCursor(0,0);
}

void resturantClosed() {
    lcd->clear();
    lcd->print("  Vintage Cafe  ");
    lcd->setCursor(0,1);
    lcd->print("     Closed     ");
    lcd->setCursor(0,0);
}

• Servo
• BreadBoard
• Argon
• Adafruit neopixel lights
• liquid-crystal display
• Wires
• Cardboard
• Aluminum foil
• Polymer clay
• Acrylic paint
• Chipboard
• Transparent plastic sheet

Details in introduction.