In the last installment of my epic saga of learning a three dimensional modeling program, I was learning drafting tools such as loft and sweep. Loft is relatively simple but has many dimensions and complex possibilities, and with my growing level of comfortability with the environment I will return to lofting for next week, and[…]
This week was definitely system design week. Joe and I are coming up with more and more questions about the specifics about how we want things to run, and we’ve already demolished a few problems. Specifically, we’ve created an awesome system for hard-coding physical x/y coordinates so that we can do visual effects in terms[…]
While the possibility of servo-motors still exists, and has already been demonstrated to work under a fairly simple control scheme, servo-motors are somewhat expensive ($8-10 each) and exhibit a great deal of mechanical noise. An alternative actuator is the solenoid. While solenoids can range in cost, I have already found a source that will sell[…]
Alright. So I looked into Satellite CCRMA, which offers an all-in-one image for the RPi, including PureData, Arduino and a bunch of other useful tools + software for audio installations such as ours. I have this image running on my pi right now. I’ve set up a pretty nifty little self-contained PureData development environment. Now[…]
