Electronic Media Class Blog

Today marks the end of the seventh week of Electronics Media. Here is what happened: On 2/18/22, not much has happened as it was a studio work day, and I was severly behind in my project so I decided to use this time to start the Arduino -> Touch Designer tutorial. On 2/20/22, I was able to complete the tutorial in addition to starting my project research and did a redone sketch of my project. Here is a video and notes that came from that day. Tutorial Ex1: Tutorial Sort of Ex2: Notes from audio research: Source: https://youtu.be/_W_qOMhEnfI?si=C3Vp433yWX5lqfKe What is an Audio File In CHOP? Inputs any audio file What is Audio File Out Device CHOP? Outputs the audio through a device What is an Audio Spectrum CHOP? Reads the audio files frequency and displays it on a graph FFT Size: Adjusts frequency precision What is an Audio Filter CHOP?  Used to cut away parts of the frequency spectrum that we don't want to see Filter Cutoff (Hz): Filters out the frequency by hertz What is the...

The sixth week of Interactive Arts 2 has reached a close. Most of my class activities were dedicated to watching the videos provided on the annoucements page since we were not meeting in class for this week. Here is a collection of all my activities and notes for this week. On 2/11/25, I was not able to perform any activities for this class due to certain circumstances. For 2/13/24, I was able to dedicate the entire day to finishing all of the announcement videos that were provided on canvas. Here are some of the notes I have written: "sourcing/buying components and info about shift registers" video What are Limit Switches? A switch that has a clicker lever, that when pressed, sends a signal  What is a Chassis Mount? Sauderable metal pieces where wires and pieces are connected What are Shift Registers? Type of digital circuit using a cascade of flip-flops where the output of one flip-flop is connected to the next Types: Serial-in, parallel-out: Shifts data into internal stora...

The Fifth Week in Electronics Media has ended. This is what happened for this week of class: On 2/4/25, we experimented with the new software, TouchDesigner. It began with the preparation of a breadboard circuit, as well as a serial write and a serial print code in the Arduino. Once the circuit and coding was set up, we connected the breadboard to the lab computers and opened TouchDesigner. Unfortunately though, I was not able to get as far compared to everybody else as I was stuck on the text TOP function and it was not working regardless of how much I fixed it. Though I did record a bit of notes which involved: What is the difference between a Serial.write and a Serial.print Serial.write sends bytes to the serial port Serial.print sends ASCII characters  For 2/6/25, I wasn't able to participate in class as I was not feeling well that day and had to unfortunately stay home. To make up for my absence, on 2/8/25, I went through the 2 hour TouchDesigner tutorial provided on Canvas an...