Adrian Freed: Fueling imaginations

Dates: July 24 + July 25, 2010 from 10am to 5pm FULL

Description   

During this hands-on workshop we will survey Arduino platforms, libraries, shields and programming techniques for a broad range of musical and sound applications. We will learn how to synthesize useful wave shapes including square, sine, triangle and pulses, how to manage polyphony and timing and how to playback and record sampled sounds.

This bracelet has an Arduino-powered ring of white LED's with a 3-axis accelerometer tilt sensor.

How many interactions/games can you think of with this platform?

There are 3 in the video:

Hand in the air: flashes (because at a party you want to signal that you want someone to talk to?).

Horizontal hand: always illuminates the top LED's whatever rotation your arm has ("smart flashlight")

Spins of the wrist: a blob spins around in the same direction and slows to a stop.

Dates: Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27, 2010 from 10am to 5pm

Description

The current growth of the Arduino platform is fueled by the many new boards that make it easier to squeeze Atmega processors and their associated peripherals into ever smaller spaces or unusual places such as clothing.

Dates:Saturday May 15 and Sunday May 16, 2010

from 10am to 5pm

Description

Now that I have assembled the world's largest collection of e-textile materials and associated tools I am trying to figure out the smallest winning subset that can form a portable lab. Here is the first cut for your comments.

This controller demonstrates how most resistive touch screen systems can be modified to provide independent sensing of two positions on the surface. A single pressure measurement is also provided with a third sensing layer.

A pair of SlideWide sensors (http://infusionsystems.com) are stuck to each other at right angles.

Button array music controllers have a long history. I was fortunate to meet the late great, Salvatore Martirano who pioneered the construction of large button array music synthesizers. I saw him set up and play has Salmar Construction at IRCAM in the 1980's.

My modest contribution to this rich space is to enhance the illuminated button arrays (in this case from Sparkfun) with pressure sensitive piezoresistive fabric.

This example uses the official OSC 1.1 SLIP wrapping for OSC serial messages.
Attached is an example Max/MSP patch to display the OSC messages which
represent the pin states, temperature and power supply voltages. You may need slipOSC
from the CNMAT downloads page to unwrap the USB serial OSC.

This example uses the official OSC 1.1 SLIP wrapping for OSC serial messages.
Attached is an example Max/MSP patch to display the OSC messages which
represent the pin states, temperature and power supply voltages. You may need slipOSC
from the CNMAT downloads page to unwrap the USB serial OSC.

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/*
* OSCuino
* Copyright 2009 Adrian Freed. All Rights Reserved
* Read and send the state of the Arduino pins to a host
* using the official Open Sound Control (OSC) 1.1 serial wrapping: slip
*
* version 0.95