Software

Liquid Tree Display: Illustrator; AutoCAD; Arduino

Website: PhotoShop; Dreamweaver; Illustrator

Video: FinalCut; Windows Movie Maker; GarageBand

Hardware elements

Perspex layers: 2mm transparent perspex, Laser cuuter, Special glue for perspex, Glue gun, Glue stick.

Case: 2mm White perspexand, 3mm Half-Transparent perspex, Laser cuuter, Special glue for perspex, Glue gun, Glue stick.

Mechanical parts: 6mm Tube 60cm length each, fishing line

Electrocircuit: Arduino board, 2 Unipolar Stepper Motors, 2 LEDs, 2 2003 Darlington Array, 2 Potentiometers, 4 Resistor, 2 switch, breadboard, wires, screws.

Programming

The code using in Liquid Tree is based on the Stepper Unipolar advanced example on the Arduino website, Author: David Cuartielles, date: 20Oct2005, http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/StepperUnipolar

Please Click to see the details of coding for Liquid Tree Project. Here

Wiring

Wiring stepper motor follows Tom Igoe's site (http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/code/arduinowiring/51)

Diagram Link

Wiring of Liquid Tree Project: (click to see the large version)