# bucles

2024 · hardware · Arduino Mega 2560, LCD, LEDs

Canonical: https://www.sofiaferro.com.ar/en/projects/bucles · [Versión en español](https://www.sofiaferro.com.ar/es/projects/bucles.md)

[Video](https://vimeo.com/1091489697?share=copy#t=0)

Loops is an experiment that dispatches a poem at a variable tempo. It draws on a poem by [@lafatbordieu](https://www.instagram.com/lafatbordieu/) that encapsulates the rhythm of things and their recursiveness. In the concept of strange loops, as Douglas Hofstadter (author of *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid*) says, infinity is implicit—since what else is a loop but a way to finitely represent an endless process?

The potentiometer controls the processes' frequency: the LCD receives the command and dispatches the poem at the requested tempo, and the LEDs react accordingly, completing a full loop. Communication between components happens cyclically.

It is built on an Arduino Mega 2560 board, connected through a breadboard to:

- A 16x2 LCD, soldered to an I2C module
- A 100k-ohm potentiometer
- A series of six LEDs arranged in a circle

![bucles](https://www.sofiaferro.com.ar/images/bucles1.png)