Connecting Things Together

Here is a blog post about how I'm connecting things together (and it worked!)

Because I will have each pipe and Arduino separate by few feet, I needed a way to have all the wirings minimal and clean.    

After consulting with Professor Gurevich, I decided to use an ethernet cable to connect the sensors and LED strips on each pipe to the Arduino.  

If I didn't use an ethernet cable, I would have total of 9 wires coming from each pipe.  Since I have 4 pipes total, there would be 36 wires!  Instead of 36 wires, I only have 4 ethernet cables total.  Clean is good...

^This is what's on bottom of every pipe.  Speaker terminal and ethernet cable terminal.

^I soldered the ethernet terminal and some male hdr pins onto a perf board.  All the wires from the sensors and LED are connected here.


                                                                  ^On Arduino's side


 All the sensor datas are sent to Arduino with no problem.  It was definitely worth it!