Archive for May, 2009

Arduino

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The [ READ MORE ]

Exoskeleton which Turns Your Movements Into Music

First Commercial Motion Capture MIDI Controller: Gypsy-MIDI Exo-Skeleton Body Suit Video by Telmaxy The GypsyMIDI is a unique performance instrument for motion-capture midi control, featuring extensive customization to enable a wide range of musical and visual applications. Setup and operation is simple, intuitive and quick[ READ MORE ]

DJ Motion Capture

Commonly used for motion capture in the animation market, biomechanics and ergonomics, the Vicon Motion Capture system (housed in space 5, Culture Lab – Newcastle University, UK) offered unique insights into turntable improvisation. Sensors were attached to gloves and mounted at specific points on a pair of turntables allowing gestual hand and platter movements to [ READ MORE ]

DJ Draws His Own Records With Motion Capture Turntables

DJ’s love using all kinds of strange setups for their scratching pleasure, but this instant turntable technology has to be the craziest DJ workstation that I’ve ever seen. Designed by DJ MoCap to work with the Traktor digital DJ system, this homemade controller lets you use drawings as replacements for records. Don’t expect to be [ READ MORE ]

Motion Capture in Benjamin Button

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Stelarc

Cyprus-born Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete. Until 2007 he held the position of Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at Nottingham trent [ READ MORE ]

Concept Art 2

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Concept Art

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Vision of my Idea

Short video showing how my idea will work[ READ MORE ]

Flex Sensors

A simple flex sensor 4.5″ in length. As the sensor is flexed, the resistance across the sensor increases. Patented technology by Spectra Symbol – they claim these sensors were used in the original Nintendo Power Glove.The resistance of the flex sensor changes when the metal pads are on the outside of the bend (text on [ READ MORE ]

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