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Describe the outcome. What did you create, how, etc.? How did you compose your image? What styles, methods or techniques did you use? What tools and technologies were involved?

We created a Y fractal tree out of wires, Christmas lights, and colorful push buttons. There are two levels of splits, resulting in four end branches off of one main root. Buttons are located at the end of each branch and in the center of the tree. Christmas lights line the branches, and green wires line the rest of the tree. 

Three buttons were placed at chest height, and two more buttons were placed at slightly above head height. This was done so a vast majority of people can reach each button, and the tree can have the most visibility. We chose large round buttons on white boxes to encourage people to come and press the buttons. We also hoped that the Christmas lights would be intriguing to the average person. 

We wired our wires, lights and buttons together using the ECE laboratory facility on Carnegie Mellon University. We used wire strippers, DC voltage sources (for testing), and multimeters (for testing).