After spending far too long climbing around on ladders in the atrium, my installation is finally up and running. I fried my proximity sensor right before the open house on Friday, so the flytraps were opening and closing and changing colors with timers rather than with human interaction. I kept the non-working sensor out for the show, and I think a few people were able to convince themselves that they were somehow controlling the flytraps. Perhaps for them, this was more interesting than if the flytraps were actually responding to their movement. I have since swapped out the fried long-range sensor with a short-range, but very sensitive, infrared proximity sensor. In the end, I was only able to have a few of the flytraps open and close with my servo motor. If I were to control all 10, I would need to buy a few more servos and it just didn't really make sense to purchase any more motors for a temporary installation. If I were to do the installation again, I would definitely find a way to use less speaker wire and embed the sensors in the existing trace paper installation; I also wish I hadn't fried my sound sensor... I need to be more attentive with my wiring of positive and ground. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome, and I am excited to give Arduino another go somewhere down the road.
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