To manipulate materials, VIZ make installations  using triggers, sensors and actuators…

Arduino is the open source board which we use to interface with the computer. We often have to use timings, and delays. These can be triggered by the MILO motion-control rig, by “stand-alone” boxes, by sensors or directly from our own patches on the computer…

To avoid electronic interference on the film set we have concentrated on introducing shielded cabling and several methods of “debouncing”. We have also developed our own stepper-controller patch with resilient stepper drivers. This has been used on several commercials in the last couple of years…