Began researching a possible project today. Both myself and Paul are contemplating using La Kitchen's Kroonde to gather data from the environment. The Kroonde is a system for receiving data from any 0-5 volt sensor (pressure, sound, acceleration, magnetic field strength, light ). This data is then sent via a small wireless transmitter to a central processor on the unit. This data is then converted to either MIDI or OSC using UDP over 10 BaseT Ethernet.
After a long discussion with Dr Bret Battey, Senior Lecturer of Music Technology and Innovation, we came away with a greater understanding of whether we could utilise his machine ( we could ), and how to go about it. Bret also provided details of other similar systems and also software to manipulate the data at the Mac/PC.
On return to the IOCT lab we set about the machine. An initial problem is that the Kroonde is no longer manufactured and also has a fairly limited manual. This slowed us down. Before we ventured into Max/MSP/Jitter we booted Isadora and played with the interface for a while. You can do some groovy things with this. After a while we got back to the point and set up La Kroonde.
Now. The problem we hav is getting Isadora to pick up the signal from La Kroonde. Time to get reasearching ...
One things for sure - when we get this thing working we're gonna create a user guide for linking Isadora to UDP signals. A nice and simple guide ;-)
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