progress!!

Well, finally the project got on some solid ground. Right now the patch is reading the digital inputs and play the sound it's assigned.
Now all it's left is to bring the all the sound together in that patch and hook up some more buttons.
now I need a drink.

hmm, how?

I've been thinking how to connect physical computing with Max/MSP. Well, I stopped thinking and looked for it, here's a link for how to connect a joystick to max/msp and so..

http://www.cycling74.com/story/2007/3/12/113645/135

Brainstorming.. still..

Well, I was thinking about some ways to manage my midterm idea. The red seatings at the lab were my target at the beginning. So when someone sits on them, lights will turn on towards them to give a feeling that they are on stage. When sitting there, you can see almost every part of the lab, but with this idea this time the seated person will be on stage, turn into a spectacle and so on..
As I went on thinking, I planned to put these traps all over the lab, but figured that it's going to take a lot of time and knowledge.
So I shifted to another idea. Still focusing on a physical project, I decided to have a kind of instrument:
Here we have a grid of 12 boxes with buttons/sensors in it. They are covered with some kind of paper or maybe soft fabric to give a feeling of a drum. When hit/waved/pressed, the box with make a sound. As every box has its' own sound, but the problem is I'm not sure what kind of sound they should have.
Oh and also every row will have a certain beat going on. Let's say we have a "hey!" sound on the first row; when interacted once the sound will go "hey! hey! hey! hey!".
So I'm thinking about a beatbox now.. but my mind is changing all the time. ARGH!!

inspirational

You are coming to a sad realisation, Cancel or Allow?

As a PC user, I hate that security obsession! I wish, I had an emotional firewall like this though :)

me no like midterm

For my midterm, I would like to mess around with jitter and video more. When I first met max, I used it for getting live feeds from two different places and connecting them in the virtual space. Sticking on the idea, I would like to add some more into the concept of it as well. For now, what I have in mind is having a couple of videos and different sensors to trigger them. Let's say somebody is entering the 10th floor, a character will come out and swear at him. Or when somebody sits on one of the red seats, the user will hear a scream. In a way, I would like to change the lab into a crazy place. I have to see how doable this is, but my guess it won't be that hard.

confused

wow! It's been a while since I've entered my last thingy. so here is the third homework.
As I get into sound, I get a lot more confused. What I tried to do here was to have a svf as a wind sound. A matrix control with two noise that imitates a girl swimming. And the third is another matrixcontrol with two midi outputs playing Jaws.
Because my concentration sucks big time, I didn't know that whenever the document is closed, the values of the matrix control are erased. WAAAHHHH!!!
I'm looking for a way to keep the beats on going, so I tried to use counter. Interestingly, sometimes it worked as a charm but sometimes it just failed on me. so I tried tempo this time, but again I wasn't that successful.

What I really wanted to do was to have Zelda's theme play but I'm not sure which object to use for it.