Magic Mirror

RGB LED Matrix and web camera

Processing and Arduino

December 2021

Magic Mirror is an interactive electronic art piece in which a viewer passing by is reflected in a LED matrix. The image reflected is abstracted by the LEDs. This piece explores themes of identity, self image, and perception.

I used Processing to decipher my laptops webcam pixels. It then sends commands over my computers serial port to an Arduino board which parses the data and turns on the LEDs of the matrix accordingly.

All my code lives in this Github repo and you can see how I built it here.