[microsound] Laser Harp with WiiMote on Arduino

[Boris Klompus]

Hi Dara,

Awesome. Thanks for the link. Haven't seen this before. Being able to run a
few sound shaping programs on such a small and discrete board sounds
exciting and promising!

Boris

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Dara Shayda <dara1339 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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