The LED-dome can display several animations such as:
- eyes and face animations
- text
- yellow construction lights
- red/blue emergency lights
- ++
Visualizations with the dome open a lot of possibilities in creating various fun behaviors. E.g. emergency lights can be combined with a siren over the speakers while the robot speeds down the corridors. The dome can also visualize neural activity from living biological neural networks.
MEA live streaming
Neuronal cell cultures grown at the neuroscience department can be recorded by use Micro-Electrode Arrays (MEAs). This MEA data can be visualized by the LED-dome. Two options exist for this:
- reading prerecorded data from a csv file
- streaming live activity directly from the MEA (MEAME2) server at Øya.
Reading from file is already implemented in LED-dome, while lIve streaming has yet to be implemented. Two standalone projects have been developed for communication with MEAME:
One of these projects should be selected and integrated with LED-dome to enable live stream of MEA data.
Example of using SINRi in LED-dome
An overview of the SINRi project:
The Grinder module can receive an MEA stream over TCP from MEAME. This module could be used in LED-dome.