Installation

Here is a collection of pictures from my installation and how people interacted and reacted to the piece.

FSR Sensor

Doug kindly let me use an FSR sensor, they're freakin sweet. Heres a pic of how it will be enclosed around the elevator down button. This whole thing will be over it so you have to press the sensor if you want the elevator to come up.



Although I'm having problems getting values stable enough into Max. Going to try out some different resistors and capacitors into the arduino to see if it can stabilize it somewhat.

Also here is a new layout picture of how I want to put this all together.

Max Patch

I initially developed my concept in Quartz. I had a bit of trouble using the Arduino with Quartz, so I remade the whole patch in MaxMSP, which took alot longer than I thought it would. The actual patch looks a hell of alot simpler than it really is.



So what this patch does, is everytime a bang is sent to my Uzi object, a number is brought up using the jit.lcd function. It also goes fullscreen!


So the number in the middle rises, as my IR beam, or pressure pad, gets broken or touched.

Mishaps

Ok, so I built up the IR Sensor kit from Jay Car. It worked for about 20mins then decided to die on me after I had just got it working with Maxuino.




So I tried an IR sensor light from Bunnings. This ended up only working at the distance of about 20cm, the box said 20feet.

Decided I would buy a wireless infra red sensor door chime/alarm. Took it apart and wired it up, and it decided that it would die on me.


My conscience was trying to tell me something I think, IR would not work for this project no matter what I did. I'm going to keep trying these things out because I really want to use a sightless beam to track people and make the project as subtle as possible.