Thursday 28 January 2010

Early bread board circuitary


This is the first stage of making our sound machine although we don't know what it is going to be yet. This is basically a home made mp3 player. Just not figured out how to change the volume or change the track yet. It is programmed using a PICAXE 28x1 microcontroller and software, which we are completely new to. We will continue educating ourselves on this front and post soon.

Tuesday 26 January 2010

BRIEF

  • Create a meaningful interaction between a digital input and a analogue output or vis versa.
  • This could be an object playing along to a specific track or music that is created depending on it's on surroundings.
  • This module is out to test your deisgn and technical abilities, there is no strong user requirement.
  • Think about the aesthetics of object, although is also this is a very "techy" module it is nice to show an honest technical aesthetic.
  • Do you want to hide away the workings of your object or do you want to have them on show? Maybe take reference from old automated music machines such as the player piano or the musical box.