[microsound] Laser Harp with WiiMote on Arduino

[Dara Shayda]

Hello Boris

Thank you for the link.

I suggest to some of our genius musicians here to look at this board as well:

http://beagleboard.org/bone 

This one runs UNIX and all the necessary software that is needed to make serious applications. Again the knwoledge of hardware engineering is kept to minimal. 

I think this board and Arduino can revolutionize the live-performance systems for innovative musicians in all genre.

Dara
On 2012-04-01, at 11:19 PM, Boris Klompus wrote:

> 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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