As I said in our technical prototype post, i would follow up on the button problem. The buttons where not working as we would like, technically or electronically. For certain functions of our sound device to work we needed two buttons to be pressed at the same time. It seemed quite difficult to press them at the same time and also the software was having problems with recognising it.To solve this we decided we would incorporate reed switches and magnets into the cubes. This meant that when the reed switch in one box came close to the magnet of another box, the sample or sound would be triggered. So we got our reed switches ordered, received and rigged up in a way to test this. It seemed to be working slightly better than the buttons at first glance but then we realised an even bigger problem.
Our new worry was that when the reed switches and magnets were in contact, instead of being recognised by the software (picaxe and puredata) once, it was being recognised about 10 times a second. This meant that, whenever we got out samples created, they would be starting and stopping 10 times a second!
Obviously we still have a lot of work to do....
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