One last bug. Said no one ever... After we tested our installation on our own and ran it also through a foolproof test by giving it out to our overworked and overenthusiastic colleagues in the room and it really prooved to be working almost as we expected. The only problem that appeared during the whole testing... Continue Reading →

One of the reasons we did not receive our instant "green light" was that we didn't have everything already soldered as I was thinking we still might make a change in the buttons because they were still not working until yesterday. I saw this as an opportunity to give the ladies a chance to solder... Continue Reading →

The last few days I had a lot of work in my actual workplace and I felt terribly exhausted. I dedicated the day to restructureing the code as I noticed that some people I asked for help, including the teachers had problems reading through my code and understading some of the stuff. I also had... Continue Reading →

Currently our installation can detect if you are sitting in front of it and start the drums of the tracks selected, it will register if you touch one of the conductive points and will play a different instrument from the tracks (e.g vocals, guitar, bass, synth, ...). The only thing left in terms of basic... Continue Reading →

Now after we saw the prototype work with a song, some issues came up. We needed the samples to play as long as the user wants, and what we have currently allows the user to play a certain instrument only as long as they hold onto the cable dedicated to the certain instrument. Basically, it... Continue Reading →

After successfully playing around and experimenting with the Neopixel, I got the hang of how it works. I now had to put it into use in our prototype. I cut out and resoldered three LEDs and connected them to digital pin 13. Then in the code I had to fix the number of the amount... Continue Reading →

We needed some feedback from the machine and something to make it look more shiny and bright. I asked Harry for a LED strip and he gave me the closeset package of them he had on his desk. It was a WS2812 model that required only connection to GND, 5V and a digital channel so... Continue Reading →

We found more interesting and fun tracks on the internet from Guitar Hero, Rockband and other games. We decided on a couple of them and we also received tracks from artists from Enschede like Synnys - one of our teachers, performing in the night time as a dj. The tracks we had were separated all... Continue Reading →

So far my prototype consists of the custom made code for the Arduino that sends an array with the values of each of the sensors every few times in the second and the code inside Processing that reads the data and works with it. If something gets into the range it will start playing music... Continue Reading →

Today me and Andro took some time to look for local shops that sell sensors and other tech for Arduino. Our budget is still on ground zero and we cannot afford buying anything, so we decided to approach the shops for sponsorship. We both recognised http://www.vanallesenmeer.nl as the best suited in terms of prices to... Continue Reading →