http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:30:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have almost finished! On this part I will explain how I built everything up. First of all, a list of all the material that I needed to setup my installation: 1. The Processing console; 2. An Arduino board; 3. A breadboard; 4. 3 BDX53F transistors; 5. A 12V/1.5A adapter; 6. 3 computer fans; 7. 8 threaded ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/60 The final Processing code. To process the sound I used the ESS library that reads the spectrum of a sound source. The website of this library can be found here: Link. The following code is taken by the library website, and changed by me to make it work with my installation Here ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/50 On this post I will write the final Arduino code. It is set up to receive byte from Processing divided into three range of numbers. Probably is not the cleanest of the solutions, but unfortunately I did not manage to send strings of byte or to set up a protocol ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/51 For my project, the Arduino output is not enough so digging on the net and asking to a friend some help, I managed to build an amplifier to feed my 3 computer fans. This circuit can be used as an amplifier to switch on and off a DC motor and to ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/53 The second problem is that the piezoelectric pad produce such a short signal that is quite impossible to read it and transform the signal into something visible. So I decided to use a microphone as the input device to read longer signal and to have a more representative way of ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/49 As said on the previuos post, the flying toys won't fly or at least they will not fly using the output that the Arduino board would feed them So I switched over to using fans instead. So I went to the electronics stuff show and asked about the biggest computer ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/47 Unfortunately I didn't manage to find any solution about the radio controller of the flying toy working only as a switch, so I have to, and forgive me for my play on words, switch idea. Instead of having the toys fly when they receive the message from the radio controller, I ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/project/46 Playing with the flying toy, I found out that there is no potentiometer to control the power of the output. The only signal that the receiver mounted on the disc receives is a on/off message. I have tried to twik the output voltage, but it only becomes a lower emitted ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/articles/43 Finally my flying toy has arrived, I had to buy it from an online gadget website, as we don't get them here yet. After playing a bit with it (it is fun, I had to force myself to stop), I opened the radio controller to see what was inside. I ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/articles/39 Quoted from their website: "vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously." In the website also some tutorials on how to interface Arduino ... http://everybody.is-a-cyb.org/articles/35