tuningSynesthesia___DDA 587: Robotics and Physical Computing

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2008-07-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

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A_Final_outputBehavior

2008-05-23T13:22:00.001-07:00

2008-05-04T23:46:00.001-07:00

A_BHV_Flexinol Wire's Behavioral Transition

2008-05-02T10:31:00.001-07:00

A_scenario

2008-05-02T00:52:00.001-07:00

in-situ noise test @ the site; inside outside of pratt library

2008-04-28T03:44:00.001-07:00

>>inside of library

>>outside of library

A_analysis of the ambient sound

2008-04-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

click the display icon to make the fullscreen

a/periodic behaviour by sound

2008-04-05T20:56:00.000-07:00

boards

2008-04-01T21:19:00.001-07:00

we presented our work at eyebeam on behalf of professor David Benjamin's eco-project.

periodic / a periodic behaviour

2008-03-29T20:43:00.000-07:00

long t;

int ledPin13 = 13;

int ledPin12 = 12;

int ledPin11 = 11;

int ledPin10 = 10;

int inPin = 7;

int val = 0;

boolean flex13 = false;

boolean flex12 = false;

boolean flex11 = false;

boolean flex10 = false;

int t13 = 6000;

int t12 = 3000;

int t11 = 6000;

int t10 = 3000;

int rndMin = 4000;

int rndMax = 8000;

int base13 = 6000;

int base12 = 3000;

int base11 = 6000;

int base10 = 3000;

int flexTime = 500;

void setup(){

pinMode(ledPin13, OUTPUT);

pinMode(ledPin12, OUTPUT);

pinMode(ledPin11, OUTPUT);

pinMode(ledPin10, OUTPUT);

}

void loop(){

val = digitalRead(inPin);

t = millis();

if (t % t13 == 0){

flex13 = true;

}

if ((t - flexTime) % t13 == 0){

flex13 = false;

if (val == LOW){

t13 = int( random(rndMin,rndMax));

}

if (val == HIGH){

t13 = base13;

}

if (t % t12 == 0 && t % (t12*2) != 0){

flex12 = true;

}

if ((t - flexTime) % t12 == 0 && (t - flexTime) % (t12*2) != 0){

flex12 = false;

if (val == LOW){

t12 = int( random((rndMin/2),(rndMax/2)));

}

if (val == HIGH){

t12 = base12;

}

if (t % t11 == 0){

flex11 = true;

}

if ((t - flexTime) % t11 == 0){

flex11 = false;

if (val == LOW){

t11 = int( random(rndMin,rndMax));

}

if (val == HIGH){

t11 = base11;

}

if (t % t10 == 0 && t % (t10*2) != 0){

flex10 = true;

}

if ((t - flexTime) % t10 == 0 && (t - flexTime) % (t10*2) != 0){

flex10 = false;

if (val == LOW){

t10 = int( random((rndMin/2),(rndMax/2)));

}

if (val == HIGH){

t10 = base10;

}

if (flex13 == true){

digitalWrite(ledPin13, HIGH);

}else{

digitalWrite(ledPin13, LOW);

}

if (flex12 == true){

digitalWrite(ledPin12, HIGH);

}else{

digitalWrite(ledPin12, LOW);

}

if (flex11 == true){

digitalWrite(ledPin11, HIGH);

}else{

digitalWrite(ledPin11, LOW);

}

if (flex10 == true){

digitalWrite(ledPin10, HIGH);

}else{

digitalWrite(ledPin10, LOW);

}

naussicaa's mowe

2008-03-28T17:38:00.000-07:00

Nason told me about this amazing (for me:)) project.

mowe

wording what i am trying

2008-03-26T11:44:00.000-07:00

Feedback system -through attending today's David class-
Charles and Rob are working on a kinetic output based on the units having their own internal connection with each other.
So with a sound input, I would like to focus on effecting this output by enhancing and diminishing its behavior like a volume control, or putting a variation in their behavior so that it possibly produces our own solution for manipulating the state of 2 separate spaces. I have made 3-4 prototypes and compared them to really understand different sensitivities of sound data based on different methods. I hope that this could possibly control the sensitivity of our project itself.

B_soudnInput_prt4_Using headphones as a microphone

2008-03-22T22:29:00.000-07:00

processing sketch__soundAnalysis using prt4

readyMade-Amplifier_For Brian Alfred, originally uploaded by thetarbre.

B_soundInput_prt4_detail_inOut2-s.

Conceptual Model

2008-03-21T14:03:00.001-07:00

Conceptual Model, originally uploaded by thetarbre.

We would like to manipulate a special organization by creating a certain behavior of a partition panel based on its internal connection.
Units change their transparency through reading vibrations creating each other. (Piezo Element)
As the tool for reading ambient noise, the microphones would be set up in two separate rooms.
When analyzed and interpreted, this incoming noise data would act as a master control of the state of separate rooms by possibly enhancing or diminishing the behavior of the panel overall.

info005_the way of soundAnalysis

2008-03-15T12:52:00.000-07:00

www.christianmeinke.com
SoniaHelper

B_vibrationalSensors>>to charles and rob

2008-03-14T16:37:00.001-07:00

The basic configuration of the Piezo element is shown here:
>>code

Listening to each other -revealing materiality through the vibrational interaction of each component-
We hope to make the interaction among each component of our output that would require a relatively small scale of input from each. So in parallel with working on sound input (that would be sensing a wider range of presence), the exploration of output based on input of the Piezo element would be good to start with.

Raw Piezo Element.
I heard that microphones are made of piezoelectric film. Those piezoelectric sensors consist of a small piezoceramic plate and electrode and are generally used to detect strain or very slight force changes. When bent, they produce varying voltage within a relatively ready-response.

image from vibration.jp/pdf/2006yamada.pdf

B_soundInput_prt3

2008-03-11T23:53:00.000-07:00

[prototype3]

tinkerlog-part1
tinkerlog-part2

B_soundInput_prt2

2008-03-08T01:29:00.000-08:00

[Prototyepe2]
_using Velleman K1803 Universal Mono Preamplifier from Jameco (part no. 117612).
>>I need the dynamic microphone.
Specification

power supply: 10-30V DC / 10mA
output impedance: 1Kohm
adjustable output level: max. 40dB
frequency range: 20Hz to 20kHz ± 3dB
max. input signal: 40mV

B_soundInput_prt1, originally uploaded by thetarbre.

B_soundInput_prt1

2008-03-08T00:42:00.001-08:00

[protptype1]
_building my own amplifier with radioshack "LM386 Audio Amplifier"

B_soundInput_prt1. + B_soundInput_detail

B_soundInput_prt1 from chie fuyuki on Vimeo.

ASM06_Arduino meets Processing...visualizing Potentiometer values

2008-03-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

For dealing explicitly with the complexity of sound input, it is effective to visualize the data in processing. Here are the steps I made for letting Arduino talk to Processing.

refer to
->> Processing Serial Library
->> Arduino Play Ground / Arduino meets Processing / Potentiometer

[step1]

ASM06_001AP-potValues

It is a potentiometer value that has to be visualized here in its processing code.
When the pot knob is turned, the incoming value gradually changes. (>>a variable resistor)

>> Arduino Code
>> Processing Code

import processing.serial.*;
Serial myPort;
PFont myFont;
String inString; // Input string from serial port:
int lf = 10; // ASCII linefeed
int value = 0;
int valNorm = 0;
String buf="";
int xpos = 0;
void setup() {
// if(inString==null)inString="100";
size(460,100);
myFont = loadFont("CourierNewPSMT-18.vlw");
println(Serial.list());
myPort = new Serial(this, "COM2", 14400);
myPort.bufferUntil(lf);
frameRate(20);
}
void draw() {
while(myPort.available() > 0){
value = myPort.read();
println("value "+value);
serialEvent(value);
}
background(255);
uploading();
fill(0);
textFont(myFont, 18);
text("pot receives; " + valNorm,10,35); //"received: " + inString
}
void serialEvent(int serial){ // if serial event is not a line break
if(serial!=10) {
buf += char(serial); // add event to buffer
println("buf"+buf);
}
else {
valNorm = int(buf); // if serial is line break set valNorm to buff and clear it
println("valNorm---"+valNorm);
buf="";
}
// convert valNorm to xpos
// xpos = constrain ( ( ((valNorm-100)*(width+100))/width ) ,0, width-12);
// if(output) println("xpos: "+xpos);
}
void uploading(){
noStroke();
fill(255, 0, 0);
rect((valNorm*0.44)+1023/width, 60,4,40 );
}

info004_other kinetic output examples

2008-03-04T20:18:00.000-08:00

Chuck Hoberman

lobster+pairrofSnakes__ Ben Hopson

HYPOSURFACE

2008-03-03T17:56:00.001-08:00

The piece Hyposurface is a facetted metallic surface that has potential to deform physically in response to electronic stimuli from the environment (movement, sound, light,etc). Driven by a bed of 896 pneumatic pistons, the dynamic 'terrains' are generated as real-time calculations.

The piece marks the transition from autoplastic (determinate) to alloplastic (interactive, indeterminate) space, a new species of reciprocal architecture.

The Aegis Hyposurface effectively links information systems with physical form to produce dynamically variable, tactile 'informatic' surfaces. Aegis is perhaps the world's first such dynamic screen.

Any digital input (microphone, keyboard, movement sensor) can trigger any physical output (a wave or pattern or word.)

design and the elastic mind

2008-02-24T22:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/




In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them—the Mosaic graphic user's interface for the Internet, for instance—have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use. The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale. The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue

ASM05_analogIn+Output2

2008-02-23T00:24:00.001-08:00

just to understand how complex our physical reality is.
ASM05_003_photoresistor2 from chie fuyuki on Vimeo.

info003_kinetic output--to Charles & Rob

2008-02-20T20:05:00.000-08:00

This is the links of output examples, using motors or flexinol wires+kinetic mechanism, Luibo showed us yesterday.

Hussein Chalayand
Boston Dynamics Big Dog
uram.net

ITP Servo Tutorial
Kinetic Mechanism

left
Theo Jansen_kinetic sculptor

->>aslo check out Reactive Void by urbanArch
We refered this architecture project in west coast last semester. They have several cool projects.

ASM05_analogIn+Output1

2008-02-20T19:48:00.001-08:00

ASM05_002_photoResistor from chie fuyuki on Vimeo.

"After the Mona Lisa 4, 2006" brainWave @ exitArt

2008-02-17T20:33:00.001-08:00

Deborah Sperber

ASM04-001-3_Digital In+Output2

2008-02-16T14:04:00.001-08:00

ASM04-001-3_diagram, originally uploaded by thetarbre.

->>refer to

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson3.html

info002 _again thanks to liubo

2008-02-13T21:34:00.000-08:00

hypersonic sound:

http://www.atcsd.com/site/

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-05-19-hss_x.htm

tracking / separation

http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/tracking/index.html

biothing+maxmsp

http://bitforms.wetpaint.com/page/_cellular+symphonic

++spotting area vs making field

a cool field condition:
puff bang reverb

Opening! Brainwave NYC: Common Senses

2008-02-13T20:51:00.001-08:00

https://www.nyas.org/snc/calendarDetail.asp?eventID=11290&date=2%2F16%2F2008+7%3A00%3A00+PM

Opening! Brainwave NYC: Common Senses
Feb 16, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave. at 36th St.
Price: $5 suggested donation

Some of the most exciting scientific research deals with the brain, illuminating the mind's enigmatic inner-workings. Scientists are learning more about the complex network of operations that govern behavior, morality, language, spirituality, memory, perception and intelligence. These responses to outside phenomena often overlap, forming the layered judgments and reactions that texture experience. New technologies have also helped us to gain access to the space inside our heads, the center of consciousness, spirituality, sense, and illusion. We are learning, more and more, that the brain is indubitably the most intricate and mysterious territory of the human body. But what do artists have to say about the brain?
Exhibition features work by: Suzanne Anker, David Bowen, Steve Budington, Phil Buehler, Andrew Carnie, George Jenne, Daniel Margulies and Chris Sharp, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns, Jamie O'Shea, SERU, Devorah Sperber, Naho Taruishi, Dustin Wenzel.

Part of the BRAINWAVE NYC festival. BRAINWAVE asks how art, music, and meditation affect the brain and offers countless answers in more than a hundred public events, ranging from an exhibition of contemporary art and a cinema series to cutting-edge concerts, performances, talks, and panels.

This "only in New York" cultural festival is organized by six New York nonprofit organizations: Rubin Museum of Art, Exit Art, Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, The Philoctetes Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the School of Visual Arts, in association with the American Museum of Natural History.

research.proposal.001

2008-02-13T12:49:00.000-08:00

hello

2008-02-12T20:37:00.001-08:00

ASM03_Digital In+Output1

2008-02-06T23:52:00.001-08:00

diagram_A_001_Digital In+Output, originally uploaded by thetarbre.

->>see prototype on vimeo
->>see code+diagram of A_001_Digital In+Output on flicker

...also made a first trial of soldering!

->>refer to

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson3.html
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Booklet/HomePage

info001_sound input

2008-01-31T21:36:00.000-08:00

First, the link of Condenser Microphone, what I tried last semester refers to ITP website ...
Condenser Microphone

This semester, I will try this circuit-info by liubo_thanks!
Hardware
http://tinkerlog.com/2007/05/20/cheap-sound-sensor-for-avr/

transistor 2N3904 _really any small NPN transistor with Vebo ~ 5V will work

2 capacitors 0.1u _1u stands for 0.1 microFarads, the u is a µ symbol electret microphone

other site
http://itp.nyu.edu/~mfm317/physcomp/midterm.html

Software
Ess
max/msp/jitter

Living Architecture and Robotic and Physical Computing

2008-01-18T01:17:00.001-08:00

Starting collaborative blog by Charles kwan, Rob Baker, and Chie Fuyuki.