Ok, this isn't really a technology question relating to a problem with something I have, but instead it is to do with a problem which I need to overcome for a piece of work for my university course, and I'm hoping this is the right place to post this.
Ok first of all, applying a context to the situation and outlining the problem. Our project at the moment in my Product Design course is to design a radio. For the radio which I am working on, I am looking at the relationship people have between sound and light or ambient light. One of my concepts, a very basic one at the moment, is just a radio with a lightbulb where the brightness of the bulb increases when the user increases the volume and visa versa. I was then told, or it was mentioned that it would be a lot more desirable if the bulb flickered when sound was played through the speaker.
So for example, when a person is talking on the radio, the bulb would flicker and when they stopped talking, the bulb would stop. A variation would be if the person was shouting, the bulb would flicker brighter than if the person on the radio was talking normally. The connection to the volume would still be there, but overall it would make the radio a lot more visual for users instead of an audio experience. Basic idea is pretty much hooking up the bulb to the speaker so you get a visual representation.
So my question is if this is possible to achieve this flickering, how easy would it be to achieve and what sort of equipment I would need.
We were given a pretty basic radio to take apart and use as a donor for our final radio. As far as I am aware we need to have a technical model ready and working, 3 weeks from today. I'm not going to post the sketches of my radio as of yet, as the form factor is not the important part at the moment, getting this additional functionality added to the radio is what I'm looking for just now.
Thanks in advance.
Ok first of all, applying a context to the situation and outlining the problem. Our project at the moment in my Product Design course is to design a radio. For the radio which I am working on, I am looking at the relationship people have between sound and light or ambient light. One of my concepts, a very basic one at the moment, is just a radio with a lightbulb where the brightness of the bulb increases when the user increases the volume and visa versa. I was then told, or it was mentioned that it would be a lot more desirable if the bulb flickered when sound was played through the speaker.
So for example, when a person is talking on the radio, the bulb would flicker and when they stopped talking, the bulb would stop. A variation would be if the person was shouting, the bulb would flicker brighter than if the person on the radio was talking normally. The connection to the volume would still be there, but overall it would make the radio a lot more visual for users instead of an audio experience. Basic idea is pretty much hooking up the bulb to the speaker so you get a visual representation.
So my question is if this is possible to achieve this flickering, how easy would it be to achieve and what sort of equipment I would need.
We were given a pretty basic radio to take apart and use as a donor for our final radio. As far as I am aware we need to have a technical model ready and working, 3 weeks from today. I'm not going to post the sketches of my radio as of yet, as the form factor is not the important part at the moment, getting this additional functionality added to the radio is what I'm looking for just now.
Thanks in advance.