Week 7

This week we started concentrating on working in groups and confirmed our groups for a group project.

In our groups we collaborated our current concepts that the group could adopt for the project, we weren't satisfied with the ideas the members had come up with so we then got to thinking up new ideas.

In the end I came up with a extremely simpler circuit for the Arduino that would essentially be a giant "wall-keyboard".

Here is a sketch and small description of the circuit and what it does...


Compared to my other concepts this circuit, as already mentioned, would be far easier to manufacturer and assemble. The Arduino's coding would also be a lot shorter and simpler.

We then experimented, as a group, with sensors that could fulfill the task we need. In the workshop we tried using a LDR (Light Dependant Resistor) to give a suitable reading to the analogue port, which would be read in Max/MSP. The LDR produced readings that could possibly be used to signal Max/MSP to play a sound, however it would be good to experiment with other kinds of sensors first, before deciding what kind to put in a prototype.