Sensors and Microcontrollers for Music-Types
Dan Trueman, Douglas
Repetto
Week 1:
- Overview
- Examples: BoSSA,
SBass,
Bahn/Hahn Dance works(Streams,
SSpeaPer)
- Intro to Basic Stamp platform
- Prototyping: Board of Education
- Resistance-based sensors
- see this site
for a bigbutt course on this stuff; lots more technical info available
here
- Basic Stamp Code
- Participants: think about/find interesting applications ideas
Week 2:
- Ideas from participants
- More sensors: accelerometers, infrared, switches...
- MIDI
- Sensor to MAX/MSP demo
- Participants: more specific ideas about mapping from sensors to musical
parameters, play with Board of Ed
Week 3:
- More ideas from participants
- Beyond Prototyping: Building the project
- Build generic box with inputs for all several kinds of sensors
- Participants: work with Board of Education, think more about potential projects
of interest
Week 4:
- Finish construction of demonstration project
- Participants: talk about project ideas
- yahdayahdayahda....
and here it is, the dorkbot, a box we built in this module that takes various
sensor inputs and converts them to MIDI continuous control output.
check out other shots
of this wonderbox.
This box is intended to serve as a model for others to build their own custom
boxes. It is easily opened so that the wiring can be inspected. Find the schematic
and the source code.
