After the paint has dried and everything checked out, I took a few pictures of the flexible building prop. Lastly, here’s a video of the entire system in action:

For the flex sensor controller, a flexible foam shell in the shape of a building would pull the project together in terms of concept. Having the user smash a small building to make a film-monster smash an entire city creates a firmer connection between action and result. The actual assembly of the foam building started…

The last piece of the controller puzzle is now left to puredata. I need to parse the incoming serial stream from the arduino and run those values into the videoFilePlayer object that was created in the first video tutorial. Serial Parsing This bit took me the longest to get working. There are lots of serial…

With the general idea for the patch decided and the sub components outlines, it’s time to start patching. Starting the project. I have all the hardware I think I’ll need with me. A flex sensor My arduino with protoboard and prototype shield Access to an old ECE kit full of resistors and such After doing some quick…

After looking at methods of extracting a base frequency from a live audio input, I found two possible solutions. One is a processing library called Ess and the other is a pure-data object called fiddle~. After playing around with the two of them, I decided to use fiddle since it easily spits out the data I need…

This next project was inspired by a fellow I met in the Atlanta airport. He was running an application that took webcam visuals and turned them into rather manic classical music. After about 5 minutes of watching his screen and hearing the faint tones emanate from his macbook, I asked him what he was doing. From…