Arduino and intelligent electronic communication…
Still exploring geekdad’s blog, I’ve read a post about demotic explaining why smart houses and equipment interconnected development is so slow and how arduino can contribute for the house automation process. Arduino is indeed a cheap micro-controller interface built originally for artist and hobbyists… The great thing in arduino, besides the low price rate, is the possibility to program it and to use it to communicate between objects (like geekdad post explains), building binary or analog conversation subjects between normal, common or built objects.
The post althought speaks about this book, called “Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects”,that is now in my “things to buy” list…
Circuit bending, speaker hacking…
During the circuit bending workshop, I’ve learn to use and build different types of speakers and microphones… Exploring a little WIRED Magazine Home Page, Geekdad Blog section to be exact, I’ve found a note about “how to build a homemade speaker” with a link to this tutorial page…
X/Y Oscilloscope Sound Controlled Animation
Here is a link to a blog called Digital Tools showing some animations made with an oscilloscope controlled with a stereo sound signal.
First animation (the song you hear is not the sound wave form used to biuld the animation)
Second animation (this time you listen to the sound used to produce the animation)
Left and right output are connected to the X/Y oscilloscope inputs generating the visual animation.
This might be an interesting application for the device built during the Circuit Bending Workshop. I’m curious to test it to see what kind of visualisation is built with the oscillators we learnt to build.
