In the past week, I have been working on memory leak issue in Processing with Kinect camera. The program that I am working on requires to scan the nearest object every bit of time. After the trial run, I left it ran till the whole mid night, and next morning the screen freeze with...
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The piece shipped in safe and now being testing in other side of the planet. The twitter feeds work good, however I found a major issue in sending serial data to the controller board via the mac application format. Pulse technology event: http://telfair.org/museum-events/specialevents/pulse-2012/ After series of testing (here is the error image): I found that...
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Before the piece send to USA, I guess this is almost the final test about Net Portrait over the last 6 months! The time when I put up in my house, it is really fascinating! I just obsessed with the process of transmediation! I am also looking forward to the cocktail umbrellas painted with different...
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Now already in test7, today I worked with the mounting with several pairs of parasol, fix some of the issues about connection with the motor + parasol’s stem, re-soldering for the motors as too short last time and seems not feasible to put the controller board at the back. Also rework a bit on...
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This week will finalize the idea of Net.Portrait for phase 1, including mounting, programming logic, equipment and components required. Last time, Sam send me the pictures about the eyes painting on the parasols, which is fantastic! I really like the double correlation meaning of ‘watching’, combining the aesthetics of design from color and form,...
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Done with the followings: Test mount Real time data extraction with Twitter Data filtering Data representation (integrate bouncing text fading animation) Processing <-> Arduino (motors) Currently the keywords as below with the investigation of smiley face network culture- Rule 1: Any smiley face that is “:D ;D ;p ;P” –> pair ‘A’ spins Rule...
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I have used the source code available from here, it is a really simple one and developed by RobotGrrl. Login twitter and then sign up in dev.twitter.com Register the application to get the key tokens (right away) Download the demo application and then try it out. Since I only need to read info (extract...
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new board: before (without parts): video for the 3rd test with new board: This week we have a new controller board that can able to drive 8 groups of motors (i.e the parasols), in that case if parasol is a metaphor of the smiley’s face eye, that means I can have 16. That’s really...
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video here: Another video for color illustration with the motor on/off + the final speed chosen (4.x volt/6) Finally bought the 9 motors and some pins for wire connection. Got them hook up! However there is some problem on the circuit (short circuit) which connect to 9 motors simultaneously. Therefore we probably need to make...
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The extra circuit is ready now, it links up with Arduino board to receive serial signal. This new board can able to drive 9 motors, and can control individual one. Thanks so much to Kinsun in helping this technical part. Final outcome will be a 9×9 mini-Parasol: with the concept of optical illusion, color...
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