Clapper Lights

Summary

A small project creating three blinking LEDs to coordinate an audience to clap the song Clapping music by Steve Reich. A potentiometer was used to be able to control the tempo on the fly.

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Clapping lights, assembled

Results

The red and blue lights indicate whether to clap or not at the next green blink. One half of the audience is following the red light, whilst the other half should be following the blue light.

Setup

The resistors are a couple hundred ohm, whilst the potentiometer is one mega ohm.

Components needed for Clapping lights

Overview of assembled components