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I’ll have to get a video of the device working soon

Interesting situation here. The animations are stored on an SD card as files (for example: 1.img, 2.img 3.img etc). Then after the images, there is a `message.txt` file which contains a message that should be printed onto the screen. The glitchyness in this video is caused by the `message.txt` file being rendered onto the screens as if they were images themselves.

Touching the cactus’s spikes on either side switches from animation mode to text scrolling mode. For some reason though, no text was showing up at this point yet.

Final clay cactus ready for the fire (or oven in this case)

Working on the clay form for the electronic cactus. The dowel rods are to keep holes for the eyes as well as the capacitive touch spikes.

Whenever someone touches the `capacitive touch` sensors, the screens update to reveal either an animation or some text (both loaded into the Teensy 3.5 from the attached sd card.

I was also able to get a quick globe animation running.

After fixing the issues with the extra data, I was able to get a `yes` success message printing from the SD card onto the screens

Below the screens, you can see the Teensy 3.5 I was using as the `brains` of this project. It was a bit trickier to get the Teensy 3.5 to work for me than the 3.2 I used last year in my Electronic Eyes project.

Here, the cactus displays a sun and moon animation within its eyes.

The code can be found on my Github.

Another example of the early development of the interactive glitch wall.

At this point in development, the colors did not fade out; unlike other glitch wall development examples I have posted here. Instead colors remained present until they were `erased` with by moving other objects and colors in front of the camera.

The blue/green color present in this version was dropped for the final installation. Instead there was no noticeable hue change; which allowed from great pops of bright color as seen: here and here.

This video demonstrates some sketch I wrote when I first began working with arduinos a year or so ago. The sketch simply toggled through leds and changed the rate that the led blinks.

more info on the electronic face project: http://stevenhdesigns.com/project/electric-face

more info on the electronic face project: http://stevenhdesigns.com/project/electric-face