physical computing II

.forum - week seven.

After a trip to Toys R' Us and a second dud toy later, Ben and I were left using the 'opewator' telephone toy again this week. Our first operation was to set it up with both the Arduino and Breadboard, so that we control the power through the computer and Max/MSP. After doing this we decided to add a 'metro' object to the patch, turning the power on and off every 50 milliseconds. Having added a potentiometer to control the pitch of the circuit too, the parameters of the device reminded somewhat of a crude granular synthesizer.

After completing this, the next circuit on the agenda was called some like "the generative moley decepticon" (or something like that). I was pretty excited by the title, and too the fact that all of the legs of the chip were being used by 33kΩ resistors. But alas, the circuit did not do anything for some reason or another, and I am sure it was not because any of the resistors legs were touching! At this point Seb, Ben and I had to part ways so I suppose you win some and you lose some.

video evidence

.sources.

Haines, Christian; Tomczak, Sebastian 6.09.07, "Physical Computing (2)," EMU, Adelaide University.