Chicken, or birds in general, cock their heads back and forth in order to focus on their vision when walking around. Furthermore when they're picked up their heads humorously stay in position even when the body moves around for the same reason. I wanted to incorporate this behaviour such that flashing LED lights mimic motion so that when the lamp is picked up and moved around all the LEDs will stay lit instead, like a sense of alertness and static state.

 

Specifically chicken are known to have terrible vision in the dark, thus the LEDs mimic this inability by dimming in correspondance to less light.

Two sensors will be used as input: an accelerometer to track motion and a light sensor to determine the lighting of the lamp's environment. Three LEDs will be used for output, however two more were added as a quick decision to increase the brightness of the lamp.

Close up of the arduino board

My original idea was to have a triangular origami lamp with slits where the creases are for light to emit through. However as we will see in later pictures that this idea changed.

This is a side by side comparison of my original plan for the lamp shell, and what resulted instead. I was working on the paper origami shell in parallel with the inner wireframe when I realized that the origami folding would not fit in a triangular form.

A side by side relation of the exterior paper shell and the wireframe that holds the interior wiring.

Modular folding of exterior paper shell.

 

Reference to : www.paperorigamiblog.com/2013/11/how-to-make-origami-lampshade_18.html?m=1

The slits didnt work at all because the LEDs are not bright enough, so i randomly cut angular shapes. Then I used dryer sheets to spread the light and hide the interior wires.

The dryer sheets were glued to the paper with liquid glue.

The new and improved shell.

The wireframe and parts are still organized and divided the same way as the original sketch within a mesh of wires for clearer separation.