For my first project in Interactivity for All I had to create and deliver a presentation to the staff of the Lower Eastside Tenement Museum on how they should integrate interactivity in their upcoming exhibits. My pitch was that they should create a series of sound jars that they could fill with both soundscapes of the old lower east side and recordings of oral histories of people that grew up there.
for my first project for Fabricating Information I have taken three FFT analyses of soundscape recordings from my kitchen, and mapped the data onto surfaces in Maya.
The sound file samples are each really short, and are recordings of grilling onions, whisking eggs, and making popcorn. The FFT data was then trimmed and dumped into a tab delimited file, and then imported into Maya using the MEL script found here. The Maya file looks like this:
And the piece, which was CNC milled in blue foam 18″x18″x4″ looks like this:
Today I built a little synth based around the popular 555 timer chip. The circuit is pretty similar to ones found here and here, both of which I found here. Both the pitch and volume are controlled via photocells mounted in this reindeer gingerbread tin and the tone drones on all the time. It’s a start…
my first ever.
The Beat Blocks were the midterm assignment that i built with Daniella and Xioayaung for Tom Igoe’s Intro to Physical Computing Class. The project is made of three blocks of wood that each manipulate certain aspects of drum loops that are being played out of a laptop computer. The blocks are sending information wirelessly to the laptop by way of XBee Radios. Two of the blocks have accelorometers in them, and the third block has 6 photocells. These various sensors receive input from your interaction with the blocks and provide realtime feedback via the alteration of the music on the computer.
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