An implementation of the networking protocols used by the Parrot AR Drone 2.0
https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone
This would be an very interesting source of telemetry data for composition.
Web interface:
https://github.com/arun057/ardrone-web
A developer guide
http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~shwetak/classes/ee472/notes/ARDrone_SDK_1_6_Developer_Guide.pdf
User group site:
Streaming camera demo….
http://youtu.be/mz8hTXJOgwc
A narrow beam that might be appropriate for building an electric eye.
At Arduino Info
http://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/InfraredBeamPair
5/2014 – check out musical stairs project for eventual solution: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=12300
Infrared reflectance sensor – no idea whether this can be focused to a beam
IR detector emitter data
http://www.me.umn.edu/courses/me2011/arduino/technotes/irbeam/irbeam.html
Tachometer circuit
http://www.pyroelectro.com/tutorials/tachometer_rpm_arduino/
Long range beam
http://pcbheaven.com/circuitpages/Long_Range_IR_Beam_Break_Detector/
Arduino Automated LED Stairway Lighting.
http://www2.cs.uidaho.edu/~lawrench/electrical_projects/stairway_lighting/stairway40.html
This project uses the Radio Shack emitter/detector LED pair 276-142 – There is no modulation of the ir signal. The project includes detailed descriptions plus photographs of the Arduino and breadboard configuration.
Here is some more information about the RS ir emitter/detector pair
http://www.societyofrobots.com/schematics_infraredemitdet.shtml
A simple electric eye circuit
By Ken Shirriff
http://www.arcfn.com/2010/03/detecting-ir-beam-break-with-arduino-ir.html
update 5/2014 – For current information, see the musical stairs project – using this IR library with sensors from Adafruilt: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=12300
original post
I was able to build a version of this using some ir receivers from radio shack. The receivers were different – one received a relatively narrow angle beam, while the other one seemed to pick up everything in the room. So, although this method works, it will require some hardware tweaking.
Here’s my Arduino code for this… Note that the code runs 2 beams but the photos and videos only show one in the circuit.
#include <IRremote.h>
// tz 12/26/2012
/* This works with the basic IR beam layout of an
IR emitter and IR receiver from radio shack - when you break the
beam, like with your hand the LED on D13 lights up.
*/
#define PIN_IR 3
#define PIN_DETECT 2
#define PIN_STATUS 13
#define PIN_DETECT_B 7
#define PIN_STATUS_B 8
int counter = 0;
int stat = 0;
int stat_B = 0;
IRsend irsend;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600); // open the serial port
pinMode(PIN_DETECT, INPUT);
pinMode(PIN_STATUS, OUTPUT);
pinMode(PIN_DETECT_B, INPUT);
pinMode(PIN_STATUS_B, OUTPUT);
irsend.enableIROut(38);
irsend.mark(0);
}
void loop() {
// digitalWrite(PIN_STATUS, !digitalRead(PIN_DETECT));
irsend.space(0);
delay(1);
irsend.mark(0);
stat = digitalRead(PIN_DETECT);
digitalWrite(PIN_STATUS, stat);
stat_B = !digitalRead(PIN_DETECT_B);
digitalWrite(PIN_STATUS_B, stat_B);
delay(1);
counter++;
if(counter > 1000) {
Serial.print("A: ");
Serial.print(stat);
Serial.print(" B: ");
Serial.print(stat_B);
Serial.println();
counter = 0;
}
}
By Kara Kovalchik at The Week
http://theweek.com/article/index/237302/11-sounds-that-your-kids-have-probably-never-heard
right-click the wi-fi signal icon in the status bar and select ‘create network’
This is useful if you are trying to run a project which requires WiFi – like touchOSC – and you are on a restricted network – at a school for example. You make your own network which is separate from the Internet.
at dummies.com
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-wireless-ad-hoc-network-between-macs.html
Current Ableton Live example projects for Music Production course at Gould Academy. Eventually these will all be student projects.
http://zerokidz.com/music/?p=202
Seven Nation Army
http://zerokidz.com/music/?p=158
http://zproject.wikispaces.com/live+saxophone+loops
Several versions on the black macbook – the recent files menu should give a clue.
Some notes about an unfinished version…
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1973
Example of playing a Midi Instrument using Kinect sensor
Components
File Location: kinect/myLiveSets/lefthandpiano Project/leftHandPiano.als
Use left hand to play a few piano notes by horizontal movement
Example of playing a Midi Instrument using Kinect sensor
Components
Location: kinect/synapse examples/dubkinect Project/dubkinect.als
More information about Synapse and Ryan Challinor: http://synapsekinect.tumblr.com/
Instructions
It tracks lots of joints, but to start, place hands together above head and pull apart quickly, then use left arm (vertical) for volume, right hand horizontal for wobble, right hand vertical for pitch, and so on.
How to warp an entire song, then make it into a keyboard sampler by using slice to midi and applying it to a sampler or simpler device
file: ableton teaching projects/shining star Project
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=2427
Simulation of the eerie sounds of shifting sand dunes using Analog and Operator synthesizers.
file: ableton teaching projects/singing dunes project
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=3620
Examples of setting up beats and melodies to do a remix
file: ableton teaching projects/jepsen2/test1 Project/callMeMaybe3.als
takes a while to load up… This was one of my first attempts to use Ableton to do something like this and now in retrospect, this sounds a bit lame, or tame.
Warping
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1424
Clip envelopes
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1419
project notes
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=1415
Also check out this example of using grain/warp stretches in this same project folder
file: ableton teaching projects/jepsen2/test1 Project/callMeMaybe3.als
example of making a beat with animal sound effects
file: ableton teaching projects/animal beat 1 Project
example of how to make the synth bass riff for “Gangnam Style” – includes, side chaining compressor.
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/g3.als
without side chaining:
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/gangnam style.als
Infinite Gangnam Style
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=3945
How to make Gangnam style bass with Sylenth
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=2264
An example of remixing by transposing samples in a Black Eyed Peas song
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/peas morph.als
“Call it What you Want” by Foster the People – warped and then combined with a drum machine beat
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/call it what you want example.als
Another jazzy example:
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/sunny side.als
Example of how to slow down an entire track by loading into sample and using pitch bend
file: ableton teaching projects/basic beat thing Project/bieber-fills.als
Notes: Ableton – special effects, slowing down the master track
An interesting cover: dirty loops “Baby”
What happens when you apply a set of envelopes and effects to some random source, like a band warming up or an orchestra tuning?
file: ableton teaching projects/dummy clips example Project/dummy clips band recorder 11-08.als
A dummy clip is actually an empty audio clip which contains some kind of processing – so what ever gets routed through it is processed as if it were the clip inside of it. This allows you to automation on various samples without hardcoding the automation into the track.
Read notes carefully before trying to use this
notes: Ableton dummy clips field recorder
An example using above set and jamming it with launchpad:
More notes on dummy clips to do fades or select a path in an effects rack
A quick example of beatgridding plus effects
file: ableton teaching projects/makingBeatsAbletonLesson Project
A very rough example of some audio recording mixed with Midi tracks
file: ableton teaching projects/multitrack recording arrangement Project
How to modulate a synthesizer with spoken word.
file: ableton teaching projects/obama vocoder example project
Ableton vocoder example and tutorials
Using annoying sound fx to create a drum beat
file: ableton teaching projects/sound fx beat Project
Using Ableton to edit a news program
file: ableton teaching projects/sununu project
Play different midi notes based on twitter feed.
Uses ‘processing’ to grab twitter information and send it to Max for Live using OSC messages. There is a multiplexer receiver which gets all the twitter messages, then breaks them out by sending them to separate UDP ports for each midi “channel” since Live doesn’t allow multiple midi channels per track.
NOTE: to make this work you need to change the midi channels in the m4l twitter recv devices so they are different for each track you insert them in. It works with up to 3 channels
file: file: ableton teaching projects/vote Project
processing file:
file: documents/processing/osc_max_testing
This processing file is basically the same code as the mood lamp. But I changed the hashtag to #gop so it would keep working.
