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Human Wind Chime – Final Piece
Enjoy the following video of our final piece in action – now including sound:
human wind chime final from Patricia Adler on Vimeo.
And our final code – in Arduino and Processing:
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ARDUINO CODE
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/* Define variables
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// Sensor threshold to tell us if ball is moving
// (usually does not break 10, but let’s make it 15 to be [...]
Human Wind Chime – Development
Further to the posts in week 6,7, and 8, we further developed our Human Wind Chime media controller, with our main focus being on:
- finishing the material parts: balls, hanging plate
- refining the piezo sensors and code to get the readings to be more reliable and stable
- get our multiplexors to work with 25 sensors [...]
Media Controller – Phase 2
For phase 2 we started looking at the following aspects of our Human Wind Chime:
- Using piezo vibration sensors to detect when the balls are being ‘played’
- Taking each sensor’s values to trigger distinct tones for each ball and lighting up its correlating LED. The LEDs and their sound fade out once they have been [...]
Media Controller – Phase 1
Mindy, Saul, and I are creating a Human Wind Chime.
A spiral of 4 inch polypropolyene balls – each with an LED inside – awaits for the participant to start playing. A tap or push against one of the balls will make its LED come on and its unique sound will emerge from one of the [...]