Whirl & RubyCircuit
Whirl Whirl
RubyCircuit RubyCircuit
Whirl Whirl
Hey Ruby, I’m thinking about building a kinetic art piece that reacts to foot traffic with motion sensors and a microcontroller—something that moves in a spontaneous, almost unpredictable rhythm. Do you reckon we could keep the logic tight but let the pattern shift randomly? Maybe you have a way to keep it efficient without losing the vibe?
RubyCircuit RubyCircuit
Sure thing. Keep the foot‑sensor input in an interrupt, toggle a flag, and let a timer interrupt run your motion loop. In that loop, use a tiny linear‑congruential generator to pick the next phase of the pattern from a pre‑computed table. That way the logic stays a few dozen lines, the RNG is just a couple of multiply/add lines, and the art feels spontaneous. Just remember: if you start wiring a bunch of LEDs into a maze of cascaded delays, you’ll be debugging for days. Keep it simple, keep it tight.
Whirl Whirl
That’s a solid plan—nice, tight. Just watch out for the LED labyrinth, or we’ll be chasing ghosts in the wiring. Keep the sparks flying but the code clean!
RubyCircuit RubyCircuit
Got it—lightweight code, clean wiring, no ghost chasing. Keep the sparks alive, and the logic neat. Good luck!