PREPARED INTERFACE
Preparing the interface...
I decided to re-make a device that i worked on last semester, but i ran into a few problems and i am trying to make improvements in terms of size and sensors.
It is not very intuitive yet, while before it was a bit easier to interact with given that it was in a small container inside a water tank, by just touching it it would react and once people got engaged in the act they would start figuring it out.
The new interface is so far composed of:
- mini Arduino
- 3 Axis accelerometer
- GPS module
it will soon include a gyro and instead of the BlueSmirf that i used last semester i might employ a Zigbee radio instead.
I have a Max patch that interprets the serial coming in and uses the X axis to change video luminosity, the Y axis to change the tolerance, the Z axis to fade from one video to the other. The built in microphone applies a gradient over one of the movies.
The next steps are:
- making it more compact and small, maybe even wearable size
- wireless again, with battery
- implement gyro sensor.