[microsound] Laser Harp with WiiMote on Arduino

[Boris Klompus]

Toni Dove uses a similar tool, minus the lasers,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T60KFho8d_A. It doesn't go too in depth, but
it's a harp-like-shaped instrument, that has infrared sensors. There are
enough IR sensors to get a read on both the X and Y position of her hands
inside of the harp. This allows her to scrub through video.

A bit of logic coded into an arduino microcontroller, to parse through the
raw data that the sensors provide, and then a whole lot more logic in a
max/msp patch to interface that data with what needs to be controlled can
build something along the same lines.

Boris

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Dara Shayda <dara1339 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> An actual performance
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=WkkhcwXpYy4&feature=fvwp
>
>
>
> On 2012-04-01, at 6:45 PM, Dara Shayda wrote:
>
> A while back we had a chat about turning bodily motion into music and I
> saw this on Arduino board:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yta0aJrbOxU&feature=channel
>
> http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/laser-harp-2009/
>
> It can be made for about $300 or so, and I think it might serve as a good
> entry for some of the performs here hampered by the expensive systems that
> detect hand and body motion.
>
> Those of you with limited electronics education should know that the
> learning curve to use Arduino is not that steep.
>
> Of course many varieties of this system can be made for more elaborate
> dance pieces and other such performances.
>
> Dara
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