Improved Form!!

I spent some time thinking about how the form could be adjusted. Round corners would be a great addition, rather, subtraction of material. It would help the approachability and the look of the object.

From here to there.

I just wanted to post here some ideas I've been thinking about for this project. Licap that is.

I've been reading about Processing and Isadora and it seems as though meshing the two together would be best for this next project. Hopefully quite seamlessly as well.

Take data from the sensors of the Licap suit into the arduino lilypad into the xbee and into the xbee connected to a laptop, then into processing, then to isadora. Each step along the way the data would be shifted and moved to form into new data or rather... a new form of the same data so it could be "read" by the other steps. Then after all these steps be shown on the screen and heard through the speakers.

Here is a tutorial about the very thing I am talking about. But in this nothing is changed along the way, it is merely transferred, this can be edited though, to suit our needs.
http://wiki.morgan.hk/index.php?title=Arduino-Processing-Isadora

Hmmm... also. I thought some eye candy was in order.
This is REM's Animal... alot of it was created using processing.

Sketches of Project 2

The original version of the dome was lost to the void when the N drive exploded... so thanks school. But here is the rest of the versions andsome sketches. Not all of them, but a selected amount. Hopefully this can give you some sort of idea of the work we put into the design. You can see a sketch of the first version in the first sketch... It was a dome that goes down to a cylinder that screws into the base and locks in... yup. Gone.

.... also. I think having this many images in this post is making Safari have a shit fit with blogger. It's been a big B to post this post. Have had to start over several times. But. I will not give up.

All of these versions of the noisebox have been saved because I bootcamped my macbookpro. Then got my hands on a rhino cd. So Yay! I can rhino it up at my leisure on my Artemis (laptop). ^_^'

This was my first time ever using Rhino... so. I don't know, it was really easy for me. So. Sorry if anyone is having problems. If you have problems I my be able to help, so just ask. :)

Culmination 2

Project 2 is about to wrap up, and I am so excited!

That is all about that, until tomorrow.

Project 3 is already underway as I have ordered a bunch of parts from Sparkfun. A list will accompany my next post, I don't want to give away any secrets.

Peace!

MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAH *manical laughing*

Tomorrow's post will be very substantial. Plethora of words, images, etc. basically just those two words. but hey. ya peace.

Printing Project 2!

I just wanted to post and say that Allyson came through for us and our object is about to be done right now!!!! It started at about 1pm on Tuesday. 14 hours later would be 5am Wednesday. Then it has to be cleaned, but ya that is awesome! I AM SO EXCITED!!!! HELL YA!!! I will be posting the full timeline of each version we have gone through for his project as soon as I get the final version in my hands to take photos of :) I cannot wait for this!!!!!

Thank you everyone who was involved!

Of course, this is not the last mountain to climb. The circuits and stuff BETTERFIT! Or... I'll be pretty upset. But, we'll make it work. Yay for first time using a 3D printer and Rhino! Yay!

LIcap

I speak of LIcap (lahy-kæp) because of Mocap (Motion Capture). This other version I call LIcap is for Life Capture. The idea is to harness several sensors that will read different aspects of life as we live in it and feed the information through the arduino lillypad. These values would be then converted on a computer to create a new visualization and also an audio track to play along with it. This would be a new experience of life. In essence taking an organic thing that life is and converting it to be mechanical. And then through these mechanical means, making it organic again, but on screen and through speakers. The formulas used would be shifted at random to make it more organic and flowing as if to recreate a living version of the living world, though through inorganic means. We hope to house the circuitry on a jacket that one can put on and take off, with lillypad this will be possible.

This mocap video is inspiring, but isn't actually what we were thinking of as a visualization.

Mocap:

Visualizations of music (we would be replacing the music with values/data from the sensors to create a visual and audio hopefully, it may not be music but it'll be something that it relational to life in a digital or emotional sense):

I will be writing more about this topic as the project progresses of course. I really wanted this project to be more art related than design related this time. I feel like this will be a very nice marriage of all parts, art, design, and engineering.