Aichen @ itp

THAT PERSON, HOWEVER VULNERABLE, WILL COME FORTH NO MATTER WHAT. Gary Hill

an Evocatively immersive experience that teases our senses and ransoms our perceptions of space.

Tall Ships, 1992
12-channel video installation
12 modified black and white monitors with projection lenses, 12 laserdisc players and laserdiscs, one IBM-compatible computer with 16 RS-232 control ports and variable length, concealed switching runners, and controlling software.

Collection: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Courtesy: the artist and Donald Young Gallery

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*11/03/06 documentation of using IR sensor to move the peddle.

* 11/03/06 too much noise example. (difficult to control)

*11/08/06 Time line: first week before 11/15 wed. test out the sensor to reduce the noise and average the serial string.

* 11/10/06 user testing: more technical details refer to Maxsensor section.

*11/10/06 the paddle move smooth enough for a prototype, but still need to fully understand the coding in order to average the byte that I am getting into the game.

*11/15/06 Having A Smooth Reading !!!!!!!!!
Gian Pablo gave me great help on reduce noise. I use a capacitor between the signle and ground. Also a capacitor between power and ground from Tom's suggestion. It is called "decaping"(just the sound, don't know how to spell it)

*the example below is to combine the sensor with Dean's pong game.

* next step is to intergret the distance sensing to the turning head project.

maybe later to experience with video tracking.

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Meredith Monk is a musician, composer, director and more. She creats this lastest show at Bam: Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Meredith Monk is totally new to me. I have never listened to her music until I walked into the theater. Her voice is involved emotion and sensation that are really vibrated to the space and audiences. In her music the unexpected and the randomness create a intriguing composition which I found very enjoyable. Visually, there are few parts that I like a lot which is the instrument made by the bicycle wheel. the sound was bouncy, and the lighting besides adds its mysterious look onto the screen. Over all, I would prefer to close my eyes and really involve into her music and skip a lot of stage performance.

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It took me three hours to figure out the Maxsensor, becuase all the out put from the board are really confusing. I finally found the instruction in the Q&A section on Maxbotic offical website.

I am getting analog input range from 10 to about 520, but it is not steady enough. sometimes it jump to 510 from 300. There is a way that I can reduce the noise. For now I am satisfied to test what I have got to put the value into the processing and make something happen on the screen. Maybe later pretty soon I will need to build circuit that will scale down the output value.

[ The analog output is scaled. It outputs 0 to 2.55 volts and scales to 10mV per inch. To reduce the noise on the output, a 0.1uF capacitor can be placed between the analog pin on the microcontroller and then a 10K ohm resistor in series with the analog voltage output from the sensor to that capacitor. The analog output needs to be buffered by the op amp in the circuit. ]

a good wiki report from itp student Rebecca Bray.

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