Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sound
Wow, I tried something deceptively simple for the sound and it worked... I'm amazed, It isn't perfect but it will get me through the final presentation for the course, and ill work on it some more for the senior show.. if I'm in it that is.. :)
Monday, February 14, 2011
Updates in Pictures
Good Progress...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwRX579p_Ts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52845276@N05/sets/72157625924788965/
Now I need to work on sound... :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwRX579p_Ts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52845276@N05/sets/72157625924788965/
Now I need to work on sound... :/
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Productive couple hours, and images
Went to my fav store, Ace Hardware, and got all the parts needed to create stand off's for the arduino and the boards.
Images included.
Lights are an extra fee, please deposit 1 dollar to see...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52845276@N05/sets/72157625731338659/
Images included.
Lights are an extra fee, please deposit 1 dollar to see...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52845276@N05/sets/72157625731338659/
Monday, January 17, 2011
Productive Weekend
This weekend I was able to finish soldering one of the control chip boards, land half the display to the main control board, and test one side. I am back up and running with 1/2 the display like I was for the end of 160A. Except this time the leds are long enough and I am off a breadboard.
Very good progress. Now I need to finish the other circuit board and land the other half the leds. Probably one more day of hardware. Then I need to link the two chips together so they can be addressed as chip 1 and 2 from the same arduino sketch.
Pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52845276@N05/sets/72157625849185022/
Just noticed the pictures dont include the board with all the leds landed. For now just take my word for it that they are, and the display runs. Pictures tomorrow.
Very good progress. Now I need to finish the other circuit board and land the other half the leds. Probably one more day of hardware. Then I need to link the two chips together so they can be addressed as chip 1 and 2 from the same arduino sketch.
Pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52845276@N05/sets/72157625849185022/
Just noticed the pictures dont include the board with all the leds landed. For now just take my word for it that they are, and the display runs. Pictures tomorrow.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Present work and Research
I am working right now on finishing the electronics. I have finished the display units over the winter break, finished the jumpers for the matrix for the left display this weekend, and need to solder the two MAX LCD chips into a protoboard for each display.
Project Description and Evolving focus
The display ended up looking like a set of lungs, so I began to think about ways in which the project could represent a human being.
The project's concept initially, for my Russel Grant application, was to create a project that allowed a viewer to examine their perceptions of personal space. As the viewer would get closer to the project it would breathe faster, indicating excitement or fear.
In order to revise the concept I am mulling over in my head some ideas that I have been thinking about for a while, since reading Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud. He states that the less detailed and more basic a comic image looks the more that a human can connect personally with the subject of a comic. Basically that one can see themselves in the comic if the representation of the character becomes more generic. His example is of a smile face versus a highly detailed face of a male human. For my new focus I want to explore this concept into the physical realm by examining whether a person can feel more connected to a electronic representation of some form of a human being. The lungs will be mounted on a wall and from a distance I feel it will be easier to understand their purpose, especially with the auditory and visual cues of breath and "air" moving through the lungs. As the viewer gets closer the breathing will either speed up, become erratic, or change in some nature that makes it less "human-like" and more electronic. The breathing will also change from a natural sounding breath to a more digital form. This will be accomplished by using a bit crushing patch in processing's minim v 2.01 beta on the sound patch that creates the breath.
I still have some work on the electronics, all the programming, and some concept before the final presentation.
The project's concept initially, for my Russel Grant application, was to create a project that allowed a viewer to examine their perceptions of personal space. As the viewer would get closer to the project it would breathe faster, indicating excitement or fear.
In order to revise the concept I am mulling over in my head some ideas that I have been thinking about for a while, since reading Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud. He states that the less detailed and more basic a comic image looks the more that a human can connect personally with the subject of a comic. Basically that one can see themselves in the comic if the representation of the character becomes more generic. His example is of a smile face versus a highly detailed face of a male human. For my new focus I want to explore this concept into the physical realm by examining whether a person can feel more connected to a electronic representation of some form of a human being. The lungs will be mounted on a wall and from a distance I feel it will be easier to understand their purpose, especially with the auditory and visual cues of breath and "air" moving through the lungs. As the viewer gets closer the breathing will either speed up, become erratic, or change in some nature that makes it less "human-like" and more electronic. The breathing will also change from a natural sounding breath to a more digital form. This will be accomplished by using a bit crushing patch in processing's minim v 2.01 beta on the sound patch that creates the breath.
I still have some work on the electronics, all the programming, and some concept before the final presentation.
Project Scope
This project initially started as a desire to work with LEDS and matrix displays. I began to plan the project and planned to use hundreds of LED's to make a matrix display large enough to be a lower definition version of a TV set. Once I realized that LED's and electronics are expensive... I revised the project and began making prototypes. The size of the prototype ended up working well and I remade them into a final two displays. These displays wires were too short so over the winter break I remade them completely to have wires long enough to put the connecting board on the ground and the display on the wall as I had envisioned it.
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