Oct 15, 2007
Robotic Orchestra
As project for the physival computing course I´d like to realize a “robotic orchestra”. The basic idea is to control several motors that are connected to the computer via an Arduino board. The actions of these motors is controlled creating a Pure Data patch. The motors serve like “real world players”. They can play and “bang” respectively on all kinds of objects according to the control data they receive from the host software. Digital bits and bytes are transferred into real motions.
I´ve seen a couple of people using solenoid motors for similar purposes, so this might be one direction to start with.
Technical requirements:
1.) arduino board
2.) motors (solenoid?)
3.) pure data
Dear Marko,
You could have a look at this for inspiration maybe…
http://lemurbots.org/videoandaudio.html
We might look at it in the course as well if we have time.
Marianne
Servo motor – You won’t need any coding on Arduino if you create your project only with DC motors. You can just install Pduino firmware to your Arduino. If you want to use Servo or Stepping motors, you need to spend time for Arduino coding.
There are some examples you can take a look.
Arduno code for a stepping motor
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/StepperUnipolar
Ardino code for a servo motor from Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/Servo