The nor’s installation art “What is Life?”

Arduino Installation Art dyebirth.

Control Circuit controls rails and drives solenoid valves. 3 Arduinos drive the vertical and horizontal rails and the solenoid valves. Arduino are connected to a LAN router through Ethernet Shield, and receive instructions from the main computer via the network. All circuits are housed in one case and placed under the dropping unit. Bottom images: Solenoid Valve Unit and Dropping Unit. Ink dropping is controlled by the opening/closing of solenoid valves. Controlling the time of opening/closing solenoid valve controls the amount of ink dropped. The solenoid valve unit is designed so as to compactly integrate a total of 11 solenoid valves. Tubes from ink tanks connect to the solenoid valves. Tubes from the solenoid valve unit are connected to the dropping unit on the rail. The dropping unit is designed to enhance the mobility and draw a beautiful parabola by bundling the tubes in a circular shape.

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