Posts Tagged ‘prototype’
Site Visit + Audio Synthesis
Here is an image of my latest site visit. I got a chance to attach a prototype and listen to how it sounded in the space. Overall I was satisfied: “quiet” sounds become really loud and very noticable, although loud sounds (such as the elevator ring) were indistinguishable from the source of the sound itself. This is something I am just dealing with as of now until I get better amplifiers or other ideas to increase volume.
Some updates (site + speakers)
I have gotten permission to use to the Liberty Building! I made my first “official” visit there today and took some pictures and recorded some sounds with my DR-100 built-in directional mics and tested my contact mic rubber unit. Here is documentation of that:
Prototype: 2-14-2012
This chair consists of a surface transducer (sparkfun), an audio amplifer (radioshack), arduino mega, and the music shield (seeeduino). I have crowd-sourced ‘everyday’ sounds by allowing people to upload sounds to my website. The music shield has a microSD card installed with these sounds loaded on the card. Upon sitting on the chair a pressure sensor is enacted which triggers audio to begin playing out of the surface speaker. This is all for now but eventually there will be an algorithm which decides when to play sounds, which sounds to play, and the amount of sounds played simultaneously. Upon interaction, audio recording will be initiated as well which will begin to record the sounds of the ‘everyday’ environment of the chair. Check back for more in a few days.
Check out sound clips from the crowd-sourced audio here: http://adamlaskowitz.com/sounds/edits/
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