Raincloud Project and Sunglasses

raincloud project

Bennett Dowers and Bennett Dowers

Raincloud Project

By: Ben Dowers

My project is a sculpture of a rain cloud that drops raindrops and lights up. I made this project to try to convey the feelings of calmness and happiness that my client, Theo, had when he was on a camping trip, and it started raining, and everyone went into a tent. It works using a servo motor and Arduino, which opens up a hatch on the bottom of the cloud to drop raindrops when you turn a dial, as well as having a led strip for light that also attaches to the Arduino and dial, which is all mounted to a laser cut frame and covered in cloud-like tissue paper. It also has a cover for the electronics on the base, and a mini tent that the raindrops fall on. It makes people feel happy and calm because the light looks cool when diffused through the tissue paper, and it is satisfying how the lights and servo both turn on in sync with the dial.