Dear teachers home in Amsterdam: I am taking a course here at Pratt where we learn how to make a microcontroller control stuff. This post is for that class:
I would like to work with sound for the mid-term assignment.
Several different speakers are connected to the same source of sound and through a clever arduino based switch you can control which speakers are to play. A logarithmic potentiometer is controlling the output volume.
The speakers I would like to be wall based 'paintings' in some direction towards this:
I found a description of something very similar on the amazing internet (it has drawings of the wiring):
http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1372
The knobs I would like to be as tactile as possible, and preferably placed on the wall in the middle of the different design homemade speakers. Everything is to be as bare and stripped down as possible.
The sound source I don't really know yet. Maybe a noise-making circuit that have a potentiometer placed next to the button that changes speakers so you have three controls. I don't know how difficult it is to put together a noise maker.
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Alternatively I would love to build an open leslie speaker (as in: no cabinet), with a small stringed instrument lying next to it. The instrument would consist of 1 string with a single-coil pickup.
I just don't see how I could make the micro controller a part of it. How about if a hidden light sensor controlled the gain of a distortion pedal? That would be silly silly.
A 12 volt power supply connected to a window viper engine from a car would be the rotation.
I would weld together the 'horn' that is to spin.
An old guitar amp lying down would be the speaker (5W or 10W)
A wooden slab would stand in as the guitar or whatever. A tuner head drilled onto it in one end and a nail in the other end. A heavy gauge guitar string across. in the middle a pickup.
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I could also be up for co-operating with another student. I don't really feel stoked about any of the ideas, most of all because sculpture class is taking up 90 percent of my time, and these two projects are doable, but would take a lot of time. The lack of conceptual ground is also an issue. It proved a lot more difficult than I expected to incorporate the Arduino board into sculptural work. Endless possibilities (in theory mind you).
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Here is the work that I liked and presented about in class:
http://www.designboom.com/design/julis-von-bismarck-benjamin-maus-perpetual-storytelling-apparatus/
Aaaaaand here is my own drawing machine:
http://www.sorendilling.com/index.php?/projects/drawing-machine/
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I would like to work with sound for the mid-term assignment.
Several different speakers are connected to the same source of sound and through a clever arduino based switch you can control which speakers are to play. A logarithmic potentiometer is controlling the output volume.
The speakers I would like to be wall based 'paintings' in some direction towards this:
I found a description of something very similar on the amazing internet (it has drawings of the wiring):
http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1372
The knobs I would like to be as tactile as possible, and preferably placed on the wall in the middle of the different design homemade speakers. Everything is to be as bare and stripped down as possible.
The sound source I don't really know yet. Maybe a noise-making circuit that have a potentiometer placed next to the button that changes speakers so you have three controls. I don't know how difficult it is to put together a noise maker.
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Alternatively I would love to build an open leslie speaker (as in: no cabinet), with a small stringed instrument lying next to it. The instrument would consist of 1 string with a single-coil pickup.
I just don't see how I could make the micro controller a part of it. How about if a hidden light sensor controlled the gain of a distortion pedal? That would be silly silly.
A 12 volt power supply connected to a window viper engine from a car would be the rotation.
I would weld together the 'horn' that is to spin.
An old guitar amp lying down would be the speaker (5W or 10W)
A wooden slab would stand in as the guitar or whatever. A tuner head drilled onto it in one end and a nail in the other end. A heavy gauge guitar string across. in the middle a pickup.
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I could also be up for co-operating with another student. I don't really feel stoked about any of the ideas, most of all because sculpture class is taking up 90 percent of my time, and these two projects are doable, but would take a lot of time. The lack of conceptual ground is also an issue. It proved a lot more difficult than I expected to incorporate the Arduino board into sculptural work. Endless possibilities (in theory mind you).
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Here is the work that I liked and presented about in class:
http://www.designboom.com/design/julis-von-bismarck-benjamin-maus-perpetual-storytelling-apparatus/
Aaaaaand here is my own drawing machine:
http://www.sorendilling.com/index.php?/projects/drawing-machine/
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