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Getting closer!

We finally got some data from the suit! Everything is sewn up and ready to go, except for the wireless communication from the suit, hence the cord in the picture. The reason the wireless communication is not working is a hardware fault, and more explanation can be found on Michael's blog: http://scriptogr.am/mkosler/post/csce-489-final-project-update

In onther news, Sarah is injured. I am pretty bummed that she will not be able to perform the dance because she has put a lot of work and herself into the project. However, her replacement dancer, Juliet, seems to be doing a good job picking up Sarah's choreography. I just hope Sarah heals quickly!

Final Project Update

After our progress today, I am excited because I think we should be able to finish in time to get Sarah two weeks to work with the system! The extra week sure helped. All we are waiting for at this point is getting the XBEE to work, finishing up the sewing, and some minor touch ups before we can put everything together, which should happen at our meeting on Sunday. 

Morgan and I worked to add some new effects to the sound output that I am really pleased with. Now, instead of the volume just changing the decibel output, it uses a filter to make somewhat of a "woosh" effect. I think this is very valuable because:

• it sounds cool
• it makes the volume changes more salient

Final Project progress

Today the group met to try to get a prototype finished for tomorrow. We are still lacking the gyroscope, which may or may not make it to the final project. Everything should be able to be working by tomorrow if we can get all of the sewing done and all of the parts merged together.

Since we have so much work to do, we had Sarah working on circuit design!

Getting meaningful data from the accelerometer for the first time!

Final project progress update 1

Now that we have formed an idea we are all pleased with, it was time to get to work! We met up with Morgan to learn Arduino. After a bit of tinkering and programming, we were able to successfully hook up an accelerometer and get meaningful data, which really made me think that we could complete this project. On Wednesday, I started learning Max and how to actually generate sound programatically. Working with Morgan, we were able to actually control some of the elements of the sound though UDP on my phone. Max is not as difficult as I thought it was going to be, and again the early success was very encouraging.

We also added Alex to our group! I am very excited to have him working with us and I think the experience he brings and passion he has for microprocessors will be very valuable for us.

I had an idea to solve our problem about not having enough input on the Arduino board. I found an Android app that takes data from the phones sensor and sends it to Max. It includes orientation  an accelerometer, and a digital compass. If we simply put the phone in a pocket on her costume, we could use an Android phone to free up some spots on our board. I'll pitch this to the group in class tomorrow!

Final Project Planning

After talking to the professors with our idea last week, we knew we would have to refine our concept. In order for us to all get on the same page with something we would want to work on for the rest of the semester, we met up at Sweet Eugene's. The result was that we now have an idea that I think we are all very excited about and that the professors will get on board with.

We have decided to interpret the "play" theme by having the dancer play music for the audience. There will be around six Arduino sensors on the dancer's body, each controlling different aspects of the music. The important thing is that all of these sensors capture a range of inputs so that the quality of the dancer's movement is what changes the music, as opposed to a binary control of the music. The focus will be on the music, so the visual part of this project will be a minimal effect, which will allow the audience to focus on the connection between the dance and the tune. In order to have audience participation and to help with their understanding of the mappings between the sensors and the auditory output, we will have a duplicate set of sensors that can be played around with when the performance is complete.