Subject: [PD] Which sensor controller should I use with PD?

[hans w. koch]

may i suggest taking a look at the interface-z stuff?
they are paris based and have a host of very reliable boxes and  
sensors to hook up with pd via midi.
their stuff is very solid, low priced and they have some pd-patches  
for basic interfacing on their site.
www.interface-z.com

hth,
hans

hans w. koch
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Am 23.12.2005 um 19:21 schrieb pd-list-request at iem.at:

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> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:34:28 -0000
> From: "Nuno Godinho" <eu at nunogodinho.com>
> Subject: [PD] Which sensor controller should I use with PD?
> To: "'PD-List'" <pd-list at iem.at>
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> Hi,
>
> I first started using PD a couple of weeks ago because I am  
> building a small
> interactive video project which needs to read values from a bend- 
> sensor.
>
> To be more specific, I will have PD play a video loop. If you blow  
> on the
> bend-sensor (attached to a paper sheet which will work as a sail),  
> PD will
> show different video loops. It will have different video loops for  
> different
> blowing strengths. Once you stop blowing it will switch back to the  
> initial
> video loop.
>
> So basically I just need to receive inputs from a sensor. I am not  
> into
> electronics so I wouldn't want to build my own sensors controller.  
> Also,
> although I am a programmer I'd rather not have to learn to build  
> complex
> programs in order to just read a simple sensor into PD. My question  
> is:
> which solution or solutions would you advise me to use?
>
> At the same time if I'm buying something I'd like to be able to use  
> it in
> the future for other interactive projects I may do in the future so  
> the
> solution I choose should be flexible.
>
> I knew about I-CubeX but it's way to expensive.
>
> I knew about TELEO but forgot about them when I learned that it  
> didn't use
> MIDI. Now I was told that after all MIDI is not even a good  
> solution since
> it is so slow so maybe TELEO is fine after all. Alto it seems to be  
> modular
> enough to grow with my future needs. Would you use TELEO? I asked
> MakingThings (they build TELEO) if Teleo supports PD and they told  
> me it
> doesn't but they eventually plan to add support to PD in the  
> future. Do you
> know if I can still use TELEO with PD using HID or something else  
> and if it
> is reasonable to use it for my purposes?
>
> I read about Arduino but I got a little scared with the online  
> examples
> because it seems that you have to program the board even to read a  
> simple
> sensor. Isn't this overkill for what I want? I also read about home- 
> built
> controllers. I guess I could learn how to do it, but I am working  
> on so many
> projects at the same time and have so few time that I'd rather be  
> working on
> an upper lever of abstraction instead of reinventing the wheel.  
> Anyway maybe
> I'm wrong. What do you think?
>
> I heard about Christian Klippel's MultIO and heard it's good but I  
> know
> nothing about it. Would it do what I need?
>
> So, after all my loose ideas:
> What controller would you advise me to use?
> Also, do you know where I can buy a nice bend sensor?
>
> Thank you!
> Nuno




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