diagrams [3/13]

Some ideas concerning how to project onto a mirror without the participant blocking the projection.


This would be ideal, but so far I am unable to find a surface that would show a reflection but be transparent enough for a reverse projection to show through.







This idea seems more feasible except there will be more difficulties with the video editing (two videos, running off two separate machines? one video running off one machine with dual monitors?)

in class [3/11]

wire is 24 gage....Chip is always telling me.....refer to this from now on.

IR sensors:
fall off curve - there's a close distance where the readings fall off. this is problem because you end up with overlap.

hypersonic ranger: use sound (the way bats work). they have a much longer ranger, aprox 30 - 40 feet.

JST connector: black goes to ground, yellow goes to the sensor pin (A to D pin) and to a resistor which also goes to ground, and the red one goes to 5 volts.



Here's the last setup we had working with the pressure sensor and light sensor:

max experiments

I made some particles in Motion to experiment with in Max. I think working in Motion is the way to go for my video content, especially because I can export the videos with a transparent background. I would like to start controlling these videos with motion sensors (looking back to that post about the Parallax sensor). I foresee it working something like this:
Have different groups of video clips that are attached to different motion sensors. When you trigger one of the sensors, it picks a video randomly from the bank of videos assigned to it and plays it. Once the logistics of this are figured out, I can delve into the task of working with the mirror, and also (though this may be far fetched) getting the videos to follow your motion.