A bold decision was made after we found out the prices of the biggest seller of conductive paint. Since we wanted to avoid costs as much as possible we decided o make it on our own. A quick Google search gave us the hint that it shouldn't be hard and wouldn't require a lot of... Continue Reading →

The new demo is approaching and we need a new prototype. Now that the MPR121 capacitive sensor is also runnning I can use it to make our prototype more convincing. I added the code for the mpr121 in the sketch I had before with the two pings. After some research, some hours of me banging... Continue Reading →

The capacitive sensor was something new for me that I had never worked before with. First thing I had to find out, was how to mount it to the breadboard. The setting for ours I was unable to retrieve because it was ordered from China for its lower price. I used the settings for the... Continue Reading →

I sat with Andro and we made a list of everything we are going to use: 2-3 ultrasonic sensors1-2 capacitive sensorsconductive paint LEDs The list seems small but the combined price of everything was more than we expected, especially, considering the fact that we still had no sponsors, so we had to make corrections. We... Continue Reading →

Me and Andro had a talk and we both shared the concern that we might not be able to have everything on one Arduino board. For that reason I sat on reasearching how to connect two Arduinos in order to double our ports withour having to buy an Arduino Mega. In order to achieve it... Continue Reading →

Continuing my journey into discovering other environments or coding languages to help build our installation, my next stop was another already know to me coding language - Python. I used it in the beginning of this year - during the first quarter project. It also has a lot of sound libraries and I decided to... Continue Reading →

While still in the beginning of writing the whole code for the installation I had to make research on what other options we might have. Since we wanted to work with samples the Minim library in Processing is the only thing that works decent enough and it still creates a lot of probrems and has... Continue Reading →

After I connected successfully the two pings on the breadboard and made the Arduino read their input, I had to connect it to Processing. Last year we used StandardFirmata to link Processing and Arduino and I already used it for our first demo, but now I could not rely on the firmata code anymore and... Continue Reading →

Theway that the ultrasonic sensor( a.k.a "Ping") works is the following - it sends and ultrasonic wave and then receives it back after it bounces off whatever is in front. Based on the time between the two events it can calculate on what distance the object is from you. Since our installation was supposed to... Continue Reading →

The IR sensor we used in the first prototype was good for start but it was time to level up. The range of the IR is only 1/2 of a meter at best and what we need was at least double that. The solution was the next thing on our morphological chart - an ultrasonic... Continue Reading →