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HOW TO MAKE (ALMOST) ANYTHING MIT MEDIA LAB |
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| INPUT DEVICES - week10 |
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| In a parallel world |
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This week I was actually away from MIT, attending a ICT-ART conference / workshop in Brussels.
As it turns out, the place we were based also has a FabLab, so I decided to use what they had there to build the "breath belt" I have wanted to.
Since it was in collaboration with other artists, it was not entirely my own work, so I will redo the assignment for this week, but wanted to post
this in any case for now.
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| The Components |
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After playing around with a few ideas, I found a potentiometer at the FabLab at iMAL, and decided to build a belt from that. I didn't in fact
make a new board, and I didn't have my FabISP board with me, but just connected it to an Arduino board. The actual belt consisted of:
//The orange belt, with a slider and a hole.
//potentiometer
//wires, soldered from potentiometer to Arduino
//2 zip wires to hold the meter in place
//a spring and a wire with loops to control the sliding
Some pictures:
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The breath belt!
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breath belt wires soldered to the Arduino's pins...
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| The programming |
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This was simply code from the Arduino interface - the AnalogInOutSerial example file, modified with port changed to 38400 and delay changed to 100ms.
The range of analog output was roughly 255-400.
The actual output was programmed in MaxMSP, taking the sliding range and triggering the onset of a sound file (of wind instruments - a sound I had composed
previously). Not the cleanest, but functional!
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The MaxMSP interface
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And this is what it looked and sounded like! |
