GMU:Dataflow I WS12/Li Lingling

Touch Sensor

I work on the interaction between object and sound. I will connect the object with arduino and turn arduino into a touch sensor. First I will sammeln the information to processing. Then the message will be sent to puredata through OSC.

Description

My concept come from one project online,it is called "Touche for Arduino: Advanced touch sensing'. In my project I make a combination between processing and pure data, using processing as a medium to send data from Arduino to pure data. In terms of processing, the information from Arduino is classified.Then I use the classified information in pure data define different actions. In pure data I will create a gem and then using the data to move it. At the end it will like a game “maze”.

Working Process

First I build a circuit on breadboard by myself to change the Arduino to be a touch sensor. In my project I can get different data from Arduino to processing, when I touching the "Touch Sensor" . Then I will define different gestures. In my case I have four gestures. Gesture 1: No touching. Gesture 2: One finger touching. Gesture 3: Grab. Gesture 4: Put the finger in the water. Because I want to use the different gestures to control the Gem object in pure data. So I name them "Go right"、“Go up”、“Go left”、“Go down”. In processing the gesture data is remembered as numbers. Gesture 1 is "0". Gesture 2 is "1". Gesture 3 is "2". Gesture 4 is "3". Then I send the gesture data to pure data through OSC. So in pure data I define the numbers with different movement. "0" is "Go Left". "1" is "Go up". "2" is "Go right". "3" is "Go down".

<videoflash type="vimeo">63046775</videoflash> File:Processing+puredata.zip