generative systems : finite state machine

for our assignment to create a finite state machine we (ben light, sae huh, and myself) created a set of three lights that are aware of their proximity to their neighbors. constructed out of frosted acrylic joined with copper wire and soldered together each box contains a pair of super bright leds and are outfitted with a reed switch on one side a a magnet to activate the switches on the other side. as the lights come into contact the magnet on one box activates the reed switch on the adjacent box causing a different set of light patterns. the states we are using in this stage of the project are :

all boxes separate and hanging by themselves

box a and box b are in contact

box b and box c are in contact

box a and box b are in contact

box b and box c are in contact

all boxes are in contact

we had a number of problems occur during the execution of all phases of the project mainly in designing the circuit and the arduino code

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