Using wind forecast data to generate wind sounds with Pd

This project receives wind data from the U.S. Coastal Observing Research and Development Center (CORDC) at Scripps Institute of Oceanography  the openweathermap.org API

http://cordc.ucsd.edu/projects/models/coamps/api/

http://openweathermap.org/API

It uses the data to set the ‘wind speed’ of Andy Farnell’s wind sound patches from “Designing Sound”

http://aspress.co.uk/sd/index.php

Error 4/26/2014

Getting a parsing error on the ruby script. Will be debugging shortly!

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">/Users/tkzic/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@global/gems/json-1.8.1/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `initialize': A JSON text must at least contain two octets! (JSON::ParserError)</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">from /Users/tkzic/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@global/gems/json-1.8.1/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `new'</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">from /Users/tkzic/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@global/gems/json-1.8.1/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `parse'</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">from ./wind-open-forecast.rb:92:in `&lt;main&gt;'</span>

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The http: requests are managed by a ruby server script and sent via OSC to Pure Data.

Two of Andy Farnell’s patches are also running (with very slight mods): wind4a.pd, and thunder4a.pd

From pd, you can select which city to get data from, and control the rate at which the data is replayed from the ruby server. The forecast cycle is about 3 days long.

From the pd patch you can select the rate of data playback, and select which city to use for data (Santa Cruz or San Diego).

Note: the wind speed expected by Andy Farnell’s wind patch is between 0 and about 0.7

download

https://github.com/tkzic/internet-sensors

folder: pd-weather

files

main Pd patches

• wind-open-machine.pd
• thunder4a.pd
• wind4a.pd

pd abstractions

designingSound/ folder:

Add this folder to the path list in Pd before the system files because the distance.pd abstraction has the same name as a system file used for map distances.

required gems include: