Morse TX3
Morse BeaconTX3 from Simon Gregory on Vimeo.
Initial test film of Morse Beacon TX3. (Footage taken 30/10/2019) The work comprises of a 600mm polished wooden buoy fitted with an Arduino triggered morse beacon. The transmission consists of text taken from the John Henry Newman poem ‘the pillar of cloud’. This is well known in seafaring towns as the hymn ‘lead kindly light’. The work has been taken around a year to realise and is intended for Eyemouth Harbour as a commemoration of the fishing disaster that took place on the 14th of October 1881.
I've spent the last year (October 2018 - October 2019) working from Eyemouth harbour aboard the sailing boat 'Mercurian' as a self initiated residency. My practice over this time has investigated the surroundings, history and contemporary seafaring culture that is richly evident in Eyemouth.
This is one of a number of projects that I have worked on over this period.
I've spent the last year (October 2018 - October 2019) working from Eyemouth harbour aboard the sailing boat 'Mercurian' as a self initiated residency. My practice over this time has investigated the surroundings, history and contemporary seafaring culture that is richly evident in Eyemouth.
This is one of a number of projects that I have worked on over this period.
Electronics and testing - The beacon is driven by an Arduino uno single board micro. signal power is stepped up by using MOSFET allowing the system to power 4 x 12v 10w Cree LEDs. Voltage is regulated from 4x 3.7v 18650 9600ah lithium cells down to 12v with a separate 5v supply provided to the Arduino board from the same cells. Whilst there are a large number of morse encoder / decoder programs already in existence for the Arduino, I decided to program the dots and dashes individually
EG: digitalWrite(13, HIGH); delay(200); digitalWrite(13, LOW); delay(200); digitalWrite(13, HIGH); delay(200); |