Input/Output 2: Touch designer progress demo

 Hi again,

This is a little someting something I made

Touch Designer progress: 

This week, I created a (demo) moving liquid situation on touch designer. I still need to figure out how to fix the resolution. 

I also need to learn how to take screen captures because I had to take an awkward screenshot of my screen in order to capture this:

anyways, since figuring out how to create the liquid-like animation was interesting, I might mess around with it further to make different shapes. 

This project will be working by interacting with an "object" that will be provided for the viewers (still working on what that "object" will be).

Last week, Bryan suggested that I use an IMU sensor (with Arduino) for this project. 

The IMU sensor then will capture the X and Y axis movements and this will trigger the colorful liquids to move. 

Concept : 

The concept that I have decided to focus on is time. Since the technical aspect of this project revolves around motion, I chose to go with this idea since time and motion go hand in hand. I will be using an hour glass. 

the goal of this project: moving visuals appear on the screen as one flips the hour glass.

Main Materials that will be used:

• Hourglass
• Sensor : An Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
• Arduino UNO 

Space to be booked: 

• Closet Gallery

Input/output proposal: trippy generated visuals

 Hi!

I get excited when it comes to screens and cool visuals, so for this assignment, I have decided to use Touch Designer and Arduino. 

This is an extremally rough sketch that I have in my mind so far: 

I would like to use closet gallery to put this idea to work.  I have yet to figure out what the "object" (from the sketch) is yet to be. The ideal would be that by getting close/far from the object, generative abstract shapes and colors would appear on the screens. 

I have previously created a work in which I animated and edited (layer by layer) a similar visual in which I would like to achieve within this work (but with the use of Touch Designer instead!) 

here is a video reference: 

I am looking forward to learn how to do this like a boss!! 

Stupid AF Pet Trick: The Portrait Has Your Attention

 Hi!

for this project, in my imaginations I thought of a museum with a "mellow" light going on, where by approaching the work, one would activate some sort of spotlight and would light up the works being displayed. 

I chose to work with this color changing lamp because of 1.the  "hue" gives attention to the work. 2.It already switches colors by turning on (so it just looks pretty while I don't need to do complicating stuff).

I used a guinea pig art work as an example below to display how this gallery would operate. By approaching the art, the lamp that is controlled by an ultrasonic motion sensor will light up!

Code: 

const int TRIG_PIN = 7; // Arduino pin connected to Ultrasonic Sensor's TRIG pin

const int ECHO_PIN = 8; // Arduino pin connected to Ultrasonic Sensor's ECHO pin

const int LED_PIN  = 13; // Arduino pin connected to LED's pin

const int DISTANCE_THRESHOLD = 70; // centimeters

// variables will change:

float duration_us, distance_cm;

void setup() {

  Serial.begin (9600);       // initialize serial port

  pinMode(TRIG_PIN, OUTPUT); // set arduino pin to output mode

  pinMode(ECHO_PIN, INPUT);  // set arduino pin to input mode

  pinMode(LED_PIN, OUTPUT);  // set arduino pin to output mode

}

void loop() {

  // generate 10-microsecond pulse to TRIG pin

  digitalWrite(TRIG_PIN, HIGH);

  delayMicroseconds(10);

  digitalWrite(TRIG_PIN, LOW);

  // measure duration of pulse from ECHO pin

  duration_us = pulseIn(ECHO_PIN, HIGH);

  // calculate the distance

  distance_cm = 0.017 * duration_us;

  if(distance_cm < DISTANCE_THRESHOLD)

    digitalWrite(LED_PIN, HIGH); // turn on device

  else

    digitalWrite(LED_PIN, LOW);  // turn off device

  // print the value to Serial Monitor

  Serial.print("distance: ");

  Serial.print(distance_cm);

  Serial.println(" cm");

  delay(500);

}