Salty Sandwich is what you would call a “Debbie Downer”. Never satisfied and mostly complaining, Salt Sandwich (I named mine Sal), lives in the back of your fridge and acknowledges your visits to your fridge as well as if he hasn’t seen you in a while and if the fridge has been open for too long with indifferent and whiney beeps and boops. Sal has no “purpose” other than to be that item in the fridge that no one really wants to acknowledge.
Idea one would be a Boot attached to your ceiling that would detect an increase in sound/vibration coming from your upstairs neighbor. when your neighbor leaves their music on a loud volume for a period of time the boot kicks the ceiling. conversley there would be sensor attached to your floor that would sense taps coming from your downstairs neighbor. once these taps are sensed the sensor tells your speakers to TURN IT UP. neighbor calls landlord, you get evicted. I feel like the vibration and taps can be detecte using perhaps a force or perhaps motion sensor in conjunction with a microphone.
Idea two is a motion sensor you attach to your feet and to your dog, sort of like a pedometer to detect how much you’ve traveled in a day and compares it to how much your dog has traveled in a day. at the end of the day you and your best friend check your stats and the winner gets a treat.
Dr Love Bug helps you set the mood when it’s time to get intimate. Scenario would be you meet someone you want to have a one night stand with at the discotheque, take them home, and turn on some warm colored lamps as mood lighting. Dr Love Bug senses this change in light using photocell and color sensors and locks your door, pulls down the shades, and turns on some Marvin Gaye. oooooh babayyyyy!
“Explain (in a nutshell) your code structure, logic, important parts.”
My code starts out by reading the room’s light and then creates a limit, based on the code, as far as how dark and how bright of light it will read. By using these parameters, it then plays different sounds based on how dark or light the photocell resistor reads. It is a bit broken now, but if the resistor reads the highest capacity of brightness for 10 seconds consecutively then the speaker plays the intro to Bob Marley’s (RIP) song “Buffalo Soldier”. This is done to simulate the utmost euphoric state of THC highness. At its darkest state, the program plays a disenchanted, depressed sound to simulate sobriety. Between these two sounds there are 5 more levels of THC intoxication represented by different sounds.
“What did you do that you feel is new, non-obvious, and useful”
This project is not useful whatsoever, let’s just get that out there. However as far as new and non-obvious, my project was a left field approach to an assignment that called for the construction of a “creature” that responds to light and dark. In the context of my project, the creature is both the stoner’s joint and his state of being. Instead of a creature or plant that receives light to grow or be happy, my project uses light as a metaphor for a stoner’s lighter that he or she would use to light up a joint. I thought this was a creative approach to this assignment.
I composed a few of the sounds by just fiddling around with different types of chords using a MIDI keyboard and Garage band.
After all the programming was done I laid the breadboard on top of two cigarette boxes in a Lipton tea box. I also cut holes for the speaker and photocell.
An illustration later and voila! You got yourself a stoner!
Here is the code
Hi. My name is Victor Kim. I graduated with a BFA from Syracuse University in illustration. While there I also “minored” in DJ’ing and had a weekly radio show on WERW. After graduation I took on very few illustration freelance projects and a few design and video related internships that were dead ends and nowhere near what I wanted out of a creative based career. My illustration portfolio can be viewed at vjkim.com while my general parsons blog is at vjkim.com/parsons/blog. Also you can find some mixes i put together at sd3.vjkim.com.
The real reason why I’m in computation is because I feel that I’ll be able to pick up on the principles of interactivity while learning about programming. Two birds with one stone, maximizing those tuition $$$$$$ (dollars). I’m generally interested in programming since coming to MFADT so I wanted to make sure I was in a Major Studio with colleagues of the same mindset who would inspire and push me during the semester. I’m not really sure where my direction is with the tools I will soon learn to be honest. I have general interests in music performance, particularly within the DJ and electronic based realms, an industry that requires its participants to spend thousands of dollars of equipment…
I hacked the “toneMelody” example in Arduino to make my robot phrases
/* Melody
Plays a melody
circuit:
- 8-ohm speaker on digital pin 8
created 21 Jan 2010
modified 14 Oct 2010
by Tom Igoe
This example code is in the public domain.http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Tone */
#include “pitches.h”
// notes in the melody:int melody[] = {
NOTE_D3, NOTE_F3, NOTE_AS3,
0, NOTE_D4, NOTE_AS3,
0, NOTE_D4, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_F3, NOTE_D3, NOTE_F3, NOTE_AS2,
0, NOTE_C5, 0, NOTE_C3, NOTE_FS3, NOTE_DS3,
0, NOTE_C4, NOTE_F4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_C5, NOTE_A4, NOTE_F4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_F4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_C5, NOTE_A4, NOTE_F4,
0, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4,
0, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4, NOTE_C4, NOTE_CS4,
0, NOTE_A4, NOTE_B4, NOTE_C5, 0, NOTE_C4};
// note durations: 4 = quarter note, 8 = eighth note, etc.:int noteDurations[] = {
8,8,8, 4, 8,8, 1, 8,8,2, 8, 8,2, 1, 8, 1, 8,8,8, 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 1, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 1, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 1, 16,16,16, 4, 4
};
void setup() {// iterate over the notes of the melody:
for (int thisNote = 0; thisNote < 56; thisNote++) {
// to calculate the note duration, take one second// divided by the note type.
//e.g. quarter note = 1000 / 4, eighth note = 1000/8, etc.
int noteDuration = 1000/noteDurations[thisNote];
tone(8, melody[thisNote],noteDuration);
// to distinguish the notes, set a minimum time between them.// the note’s duration + 30% seems to work well:
int pauseBetweenNotes = noteDuration * 2;
delay(pauseBetweenNotes);
// stop the tone playing:
noTone(8); }
}
void loop() { // no need to repeat the melody.}
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