Experiment 1

Another prototype for thesis – a refined squid and a new tick creature created in oF. Both are hooked up … More

VJing with Analogue Transit

Excerpts from VJ set for Analogue Transit

The squid – oF + Reaktor

The first prototype for thesis – hooked up Nick’s squid to Reaktor. The squid breathes and moves towards the mouse. … More

miBass

miBass is a bass guitar-like instrument that can be played on an iphone. Mrmr on the iphone is used to … More

Gestural instrument with openCV

An experiment with OpenCV and the ofxMSAFluid library in OpenFrameworks. The white ball can be controlled by hand gestures and … More

Flitter

Uses point recording and FM sysnthesis. The location of a point affects the Carrier Frequency on the x-axis and Modulator … More

The Line

Uses a cumulative rotating drawing object and FM synthesis. The x and y difference between points affects the modulator index, … More

Use the FFT as input to make a visualizer for audio

Visualizing Chopin’s Etude op.10 #07 in OpenFrameworks with FFT and the ofxMSAFluid library.

fr3shb0t

fr3shb0t was created as the final project for the physical computing class. It uses SpeakJet, TTS256 and PIC16F88 microprocessors and an ultrasonic rangefinders. If someone comes close to fr3shb0t, he gets excited and hits on them! He says “Hey, good looking!”

Jnx an augmented, tactile interface for stress relief

Jnx is an augmented, tactile interface for stress relief, in the form of a plush doll. The core idea of Jnx is based around the concept of squeezing something, much like stress busters, which is emulated by squeezing the dolls throat.

Testing the Wave Shield

Testing the audio Wave Shield from adafruit. It took a while to get it working because strangely the USB cables I got from Staples don’t work with it. Very weird. Anyway here’s the first test with the looped audio example.

Scaling a circle with a potentiometer

Scaling a circle in processing with potentiometer through serial communication from a pic chip.

Diver: Sequencer on acid!

An Arduino sound project, Diver is an instrument inspired by Analog Sequencers and Theremins. It allows creating a four-note … More

Theremin like instrument: Prototype 2

Second prototype for the theremin style instrument. It is more of a sequencer now with 4 POT’s for changing frequencies in a looped melody and a sensor changing the tempo.

Tweetlite: A twitter visualization cube

After 2 more rounds of prototypes and one round of user testing. I decided to build Tweetlite. Tweetlite is a twitter feed visualization cube, dimensions around 5x5x5. It translates and displays the conversations on a twitter feed in morse code. Each message is a different color.