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Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:46:57Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

Second Breathing sensor:
[[File:2nd_breathing_sensor_wiki .jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2nd Prana_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Open_Prana2_wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:
[[File:prana_proto_together_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pranasols_complete_wiki.jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing sensors..

5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.

8. Set-up, test and film.

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:45:52Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]

Second Breathing sensor:

[[File:2nd_breathing_sensor_wiki .jpg]]

[[File:2nd Prana_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Open_Prana2_wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

[[File:prana_proto_together_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pranasols_complete_wiki.jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing sensors..

5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.

8. Set-up, test and film.

File:Pranasols complete wiki.jpg

2016-03-10T14:45:30Z

Sebastiankaye:

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File:Prana proto together wiki.jpg

2016-03-10T14:45:12Z

Sebastiankaye:

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Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:44:40Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]
[[File:2nd Prana_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Open_Prana2_wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

[[File:prana_proto_together_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pranasols_complete_wiki.jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing sensors..

5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.

8. Set-up, test and film.

File:Open Prana2 wiki.jpg

2016-03-10T14:39:28Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:38:52Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]
[[File:2nd Prana_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Open_Prana2_wiki.jpg]]
Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

[[File:2nd_breathing_sensor_wiki .jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:2nd Prana wiki.jpg

2016-03-10T14:37:19Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:36:54Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]
[[File:2nd Prana_wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

[[File:2nd_breathing_sensor_wiki .jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:2nd breathing sensor wiki .jpg

2016-03-10T14:18:59Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:16:57Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]
[[File:IMG_2424wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

[[File:2nd_breathing_sensor_wiki .jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:14:43Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

[[File:2nd_breathing_sensor_wiki .jpg]]

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg

2016-03-10T14:08:58Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
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Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T14:06:22Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

NEW Circuit diagram in two-point perspective:

[[File:PRANASOL CURCUIT Complete-wiki.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-10T11:10:57Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

Circuit diagram 3d:

[[File:Example.jpg]]

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T20:30:30Z

Sebastiankaye:

---Mycelium Presentation (Free PDF Download below)---

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

---Mycelium growth ---

[[File:Pink_oy_myc_1_wiki.jpg]]

Growing (fructification of) Pink Oyster Mushrooms.
2 Flushes from a substrate of straw prepared via sterilization: immersion in hot water.

[[File:Pink_oy_my_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pink_harvested_wiki.jpg]]

After transferring some of the straw from the original bag into a glass container, I tried to vary their food with the addition of used coffee grounds (sterilised via coffee making :))

[[File:Pink_Compare_wiki.jpg]]

---D I Y DNA ---

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]

Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]

Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]

The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]

A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and so I have no more footage.

File:2dn circuit wiki.jpg

2016-03-09T19:17:28Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T19:17:00Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:2dn circuit_wiki.jpg]]

Circuit diagram 3d:

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:2nd protosheild wiki.jpg

2016-03-09T19:15:36Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T19:15:11Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

[[File:2nd_protosheild_wiki.jpg]]

Circuit diagram 3d:

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:2nd mechanism wiki.jpg

2016-03-09T19:08:49Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T19:08:16Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Mechanism:

[[File:2nd_mechanism_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

Circuit diagram 3d:

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:Open mind wiki.jpg

2016-03-09T18:57:33Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T18:57:03Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

[[File:open_mind_wiki.jpg]]

Second Circuit protoshield:

Circuit diagram 3d:

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

File:Pranasol circuit 1 wiki.jpg

2016-03-09T18:55:43Z

Sebastiankaye:

== Summary ==

== Copyright status: ==

== Licensing ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-nc-3.0}}
== Source: ==

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T18:52:03Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Pranasol_circuit_1_wiki.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

Second Circuit protoshield:

Circuit diagram 3d:

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T18:48:47Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Example.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Weimar graffiti:

Second Circuit protoshield:

Circuit diagram 3d:

Umbrellas together:

Second Breathing sensor:

4. Build and improve both breathing devices
5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.
6. Sew
7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.
8. Set-up, test and film.

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T14:35:13Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Example.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Next steps:

1. Set up and test First Umbrella with the primitive breathing device and original motor and code. 1a.Film interaction.

2. Test new motors (for use with 2nd Umbrella)
2a. If the new motor works: build second mechanism (smaller) for Umbrella 2 with the new motor.
2b. If Motor doesn't work, fins one that does! and then build the second mechanism (normal size).

3. assemble and connect 2nd circuit to 2nd Umbrella with 2nd Arduino.
3b. resolve where and how power will be sources for the installation. (car batteries... computers..Lithium batteries)

4. Build and improve both breathing devices

5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.

6. Sew, and assemble all parts.

7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.

8. Set-up, test and film.

9. Share results online.

Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T14:10:12Z

Sebastiankaye:

Tools for Tales (Medium as Message)

[[File:printwater2.jpg]]

--- P R A N A S O L S ---

Prana (breath life force): focused on to protect the mind from discursive thoughts: inner protection

Parasol (sun umbrella): physical outer protection from elements.

Designing a mechanism to control an Umbrella with breathing or respiratory movement of the chest. Enter the breathing Umbrella.

Do you breath the Umbrella or does it breath you?

The intended outcome is to create 2 Breathing Umbrellas and have them connected with fabric from their enlarged circumference, with the tops of each Umbrella facing each other as you see in the sketch's below.

[[File:Umbrella22.jpg]]

As each participant controls one Umbrella each, their Umbrellas movement are connected via the Fabric to the other Umbrella, hopefully creating the feeling that there is only one mechanical 'creature' controlled by the life support of the two participants.

Will the participants feel in control of the umbrellas or will it feel like the umbrellas own limitations control the participants. Who breathes who?

[[File:Breathing_A.jpg]]

"No smoke without fire. No breathe without life.
With mechanical movement, externalising the the bodily rhythm of breathing, a conscious and subconscious action. A kinetic externalisation of the bodily rhythm of breath between two people."

"Collective bio-feedback. A single mechanical creature who's movements are conditioned by the life giving activity of two people. Breath parents."

[[File:Breathing_B.jpg]]

[[File:B3.jpg]]

[[File:B4.jpg]]

Why the breath?

As Humans we make a strong association between breathing and life. If something breaths, or shows signs of respiration, it must be alive. (scientific definition of life, and it's 7 signs...) You could find the most common inanimate object, and make it breath, or show signs of breathing, and we may for a moment be convinced, or have the feeling that it is an alive, sentient being.

The breath is also the most common object of meditation because it has no form and it constantly coming and going. If you ever need an anchor to the present moment to pull you out of 'your head', out of your habitual and dualistic thought patterns, your internal chatter or dialogue, it is the breath.

The breath as an object of focus in meditation is used in Shinay (Tibetan) or Shinyata (Sanskrit), which is translated to mean, calm abiding, to calm the mind down and focus it in one direction. Only once you have calmed the mind down can you begin control it.

Associations between Umbrella and Breath?

The Umbrella simultaneously symbolisms protection (Function) and fragility (Materials, form) of the breath. Life must be protected as it is fragile. The mechanical motion of the umbrella is an exaggerated form of the human diaphragm's movement.

---Other Artists using Umbrellas----

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: "The Umbrellas" 1991

[[File:USA_Claud wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Japan_umb_wiki.jpg]]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufM8ag9XaXk link Peter William Holden]

[http://www.yatzer.com/Everything-That-Happens-in-the-mind-of-Julie-Tremblay link JULIE TREMBLAY] 2014
[[File:J_TR wiki.jpg]]

The “Parasol Project” by Jo Ann Fleischhauer is an installation. The artist chose to contrast how emotions are portrayed in modern times versus the Victorian Era. The images on the parasols, which mimic floral designs, are actually colour-infused Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) – contemporary emotional representations – while the parasols themselves represent the desires of women in Victorian times, who used parasols to convey unspoken emotions to men.

[[File:Parasol_wiki.jpg]]

Sam Spencer's 'Umbrella Tree'
[[File:Sam_Spencer_umbrella_tree_wiki.jpg]]

“Cumulus Light Canopy” by Steven Haulenbeek
[[File:Steve_Haulenbeek wiki.jpg]]

---Technical Development---

First researched and collected the necessary components:

One Strong Stepper Motor/
The Motors Driver/
A Universal Mounting Hub/

[[File:Motor_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Driver8825_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:MountHub_wiki.jpg]]

Driver connection Diagram:
[[File:driver_diag_wiki.jpg]]

Arduino, Motor and Driver connected:
[[File:Ard-motor-driver_wiki.jpg]]

Considered a variety of mounting methods for the Motor and Umbrella:
[[File:Mount_research_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Mount_research_2_wiki.jpg]]

3D design of the the mounting for potential 3D Printing (using the Blender software):
[[File:3D_mount_seb.jpg]]

To scale section drawing:
[[File:Mech_sketch_wiki.jpg]]

First attempt to use wood and Metal by hand to construct the above mechanism sketch is shown below in the images:

[[File:Metal_1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:motor attached_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 2_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:mill 3_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece 1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:Piece Rubber_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:brell1_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:back brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:port brell_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:microcontroller attached_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:ubreath02a_wiki.jpg]]
[[File:ubreath01a_wiki.jpg]]

Above: the first Mechanism attached to the Umbrella.

Below: The circuit on the breadboard, DRV8825 Driver for the motor.

[[File:Breadboard_Seb.jpg]]

The breadboard can only take a limited current. So next step is to make a Custom PCB board.

I spent 2 weeks trying to create the new part (DRV8825) in Fritzig because it was not there. I was editing someone else's shared part, because theirs was incomplete. Long story short: I made it but it still didn't function correctly when trying to draw the connection traces.

So I aborted this design process and instead bought a Arduino Proto-shield to solder my circuit to.

[[File:Proto_example.jpg]]

Soldering the Protosheild:

[[File:shield_make.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Blank.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_top.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Side.jpg]]
[[File:Shield_Fin.jpg]]

Images of the general set-up while coding the breathing interaction:

[[File:Coding_1.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_2.jpg]]
[[File:Coding_3.jpg]]

Below: The Code for controlling the motor's speed and direction, via the 'breathing sensor.
The Magnet sensor outputs a range of values, and here it basically operates in place of a Potentiometer.

int dirPin = 7;
int stepPin = 8;
long stepsToDo;
long stepTime;
int dir;
long target;
long curPos;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(dirPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(stepPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
target = analogRead(A2) * 20 ;
stepsToDo = target - curPos;
if (stepsToDo < 0) {
digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW);
dir = -1;
}
else {
digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH);
dir = 1;
}
delayMicroseconds(stepTime + 10); //10 as minimum step Time
if (stepsToDo != 0) {
curPos = curPos + dir;
stepTime = 300000 / abs(stepsToDo);
digitalWrite(stepPin,!digitalRead(stepPin));
}
}

Here is a short video of the First Functioning moment. I am using a Potentiometer to control the Umbrella. Later this will be replaced by the Breathing Sensor.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sn_Zn28_QuY

Breathing Sensor Version 1:

[[File:Breathing_sensor_v1.jpg]]

Above: Magnet sensor and a magnet attached to a latex glove, which you strap around your upper rib cage (Chest). when your Chest contracts and expends, the magnet is moved closer and further from the sensor, creating a changing value. This is used to control the Umbrella. The Arduino code for this is above.

Circuit:

[[File:Circuit.jpg]]

Next: Exploring different fabrics for connecting the two Umbrellas.

---LATEX----

I bought a strip of thera band (Normally used for exercise). I chose the type with least resistance, so that the umbrellas are not stressed too much. I sewed it to the Umbrella to test the durability.

[[File:Latex_1.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_2.jpg]]
[[File:Latex_3.jpg]]

The testing revealed that it breaks down, because the sewing produced holes in the latex, so it very rapidly rips off from its fixing. This is not going to work with latex.

Alternative Umbrella arrangements:

[[File:Wood_1.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_2.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_3.jpg]]
[[File:Wood_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_1.jpg]]
[[File:inside_2.jpg]]
[[File:inside_3.jpg]]
[[File:inside_4.jpg]]
[[File:inside_5.jpg]]
[[File:inside_6.jpg]]

Next: BUNGE CORD.

At €1.20 per meter, I bought 12 meters. This didn't cover the whole Umbrella, only 30percent.

[[File:Bunge_1.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_2.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_vert.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_3.jpg]]
[[File:Bunge_4.jpg]]

Next steps:

1. Set up and test First Umbrella with the primitive breathing device and original motor and code. 1a.Film interaction.

2. Test new motors (for use with 2nd Umbrella)
2a. If the new motor works: build second mechanism (smaller) for Umbrella 2 with the new motor.
2b. If Motor doesn't work, fins one that does! and then build the second mechanism (normal size).

3. assemble and connect 2nd circuit to 2nd Umbrella with 2nd Arduino.
3b. resolve where and how power will be sources for the installation. (car batteries... computers..Lithium batteries)

4. Build and improve both breathing devices

5. Find another fabric to connect the two umbrellas.

6. Sew, and assemble all parts.

7. Design installation fixtures: vertical or horizontal. Consider how this mirrors the relation between the two users.

8. Set-up, test and film.

9. Share results online.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T13:51:04Z

Sebastiankaye:

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T13:50:51Z

Sebastiankaye:

---Mycelium Presentation (Free PDF Download below)---

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

---Mycelium growth ---

[[File:Pink_oy_myc_1_wiki.jpg]]

Growing (fructification of) Pink Oyster Mushrooms.
2 Flushes from a substrate of straw prepared via sterilization: immersion in hot water.

[[File:Pink_oy_my_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pink_harvested_wiki.jpg]]

After transferring some of the straw fro the original bag into a glass container, I tried to vary their food with the addition of used coffee grounds (sterilised via coffee making :))

[[File:Pink_Compare_wiki.jpg]]

---D I Y DNA ---

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]

Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]

Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]

The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]

A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

File:Pink Compare wiki.jpg

2016-03-09T13:48:00Z

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2016-03-09T13:47:32Z

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2016-03-09T13:47:16Z

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2016-03-09T13:46:55Z

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GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T13:45:48Z

Sebastiankaye:

---Mycelium Presentation (Free PDF Download below)---

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

---Mycelium growth ---

[[File:Pink_oy_myc_1_wiki.jpg]]

Growing (fructification of) Pink Oyster Mushrooms.
2 Flushes from a substrate of straw prepared via sterilizations: immersion in hot water.

[[File:Pink_oy_my_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pink_harvested_wiki.jpg]]

After transferring some of the straw fro the original bag into a glass container, I tried to vary their food with the addition of used coffee grounds (sterilised via coffee making :))

[[File:Pink_Compare_wiki.jpg]]

---D I Y DNA ---

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-09T13:45:33Z

Sebastiankaye:

---Mycelium Presentation (Free PDF Download below)---

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

---Mycelium growth ---

[[File:Pink_oy_myc_1_wiki.jpg]]
Growing (fructification of) Pink Oyster Mushrooms.
2 Flushes from a substrate of straw prepared via sterilizations: immersion in hot water.

[[File:Pink_oy_my_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Pink_harvested_wiki.jpg]]

After transferring some of the straw fro the original bag into a glass container, I tried to vary their food with the addition of used coffee grounds (sterilised via coffee making :))

[[File:Pink_Compare_wiki.jpg]]

---D I Y DNA ---

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-08T23:47:30Z

Sebastiankaye:

---Mycelium Presentation (Free PDF Download below)---

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

---Mycelium growth (coming soon) ---

---D I Y DNA ---

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-08T23:46:46Z

Sebastiankaye:

Mycelium Presentation (Free PDF Download below)

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

Mycelium growth (coming soon)

D I Y DNA

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

File:MYCELIM PDF SEB K.pdf

2016-03-08T23:45:43Z

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2016-03-08T23:44:39Z

Sebastiankaye:

Mycelium Presentation (coming soon)

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.pdf]]

Mycelium growth (coming soon)

D I Y DNA

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-08T23:42:29Z

Sebastiankaye:

Mycelium Presentation (coming soon)

[[Media:MYCELIM_PDF_SEB_K.ogg]]

Mycelium growth (coming soon)

D I Y DNA

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

GMU:BioArt WS15/Sebastian Kaye

2016-03-08T23:37:32Z

Sebastiankaye:

Mycelium Presentation (coming soon)

Mycelium growth (coming soon)

D I Y DNA

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

I had extracted some tissue DNA from a Thuringian Blutwurst.

I planned to use Pork Primers to test it for Pork. If there is any pork DNA in this sausage, then the primers will attach, the Polymerase with replicate and there will be amplified Pork DNA in the Analysis afterwards. If there is not any pork, then the gel analysis will show nothing.

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

File:Filling Gel-Chamber.jpg

2016-03-08T23:34:36Z

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2016-03-08T23:34:06Z

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2016-03-08T23:33:23Z

Sebastiankaye:

Mycelium Presentation (coming soon)

Mycelium growth (coming soon)

D I Y DNA

PCR Workshop with Philip Bayer from the Heidelberg Life science Lab (25th - 28th Feb) 2016

Hands on Citizen Science, exploration of homemade alternative devices. DIY BioTech.

The team from Heidelberg spent four days with us (students from Media art and Media Architecture) to build three PRC Machines, based on their prototype for introducing and teaching PCR.

[[File:PRC_Items.jpg]]

These are the essential components for building this PCR Machine. A cooling element (the large fan). A heating Element, and a custom built metallic part as the holder for the DNA samples to be Amplified.

Before building the machine, we were first educated on what is a PCR and the related microbiological concepts.

"The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
Developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis, PCR is now a common and often indispensable technique used in medical and biological research labs for a variety of applications. " - wikipedia

With the help of a heat-stable DNA polymerase, (in this case) Taq polymerase (an enzyme originally isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus), and other microbiological tools, the PRC allows you to replicate and copy specific sections of DNA code (thanks to Primers).

Once the polymerase and Primers (through the PCR Cycles) have amplified the original DNA sample, one can then analyse this using ' agarose gel electrophoresis', a DNA analysis method.

[[File:Ag_Gel_Electo.jpg]]
Above: The teams own self build Gel chamber. We later construct one from a lunch box.

[[File:PCR_workshop1.jpg]]
Above: The workshop teams!

[[File:Arduino_curcuit_PCR.jpg]]

Building the Arduino circuit.

[[File:Flashing_arduino_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Flashing the PIC on the breadboard with their software which runs the thermo cycler.

[[File:Temp_sensor_PCR_wiki.jpg]]

Updating the unique sensor addresses in the Arduino code.

[[File:4-parts_wiki.jpg]]
The heating Element is surrounded by the PCB circuit. On this workshop there was an issue with their custom PCB circuit, so that is why we used an Arduino instead. But we still needed to add this part because it was integral to the casing.

DNA Seperation Demonstration

With cocktail ingredient Philip Bayer enthusiastically demonstrated how one can separate DNA of Strawberries using ingredient from England and the USA.

(a recipe to celebrate the 50 years of the Double Helix, a collaboration between these two countries, quite fitting!)

[[File:Helix_cocktail_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Helix_cocktail_2_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_Side view_wiki.jpg]]
A finished PRC Machine : one of three

With the 3 PCR's assembled and ready on Friday evening, Saturday morning came where we followed a DNA extraction protocol using the solutions (Primers.. Master mix.. Buffers.ec.t..) which came from a PRC Kit.

So we Extracted DNA from our Breakfast:

[[File:Breakfast-wiki.jpg]]

The protocol involved breaking the histones, and using a centrifuge several times to extract the DNA.

[[File:Extract_brkFast_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:BioLab_DNA_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:Centrifuge1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:DNA_ex_mont_1_wiki.jpg]]

[[File:4_DNA_ex_2.jpg]]

[[File:Extraction_rounds.jpg]]

[[File:Final_DNA_Sample.jpg]]

[[File:All_DNA_Samples.jpg]]

The final samples are a cocktail of:

DNA Sample to be tested

Primers (forward and revers) 'Mark very specific lines of DNA code, (species specific)

Deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) - the nucleotides adenine (ATP), guanine (GTP), cytosine (CTP), and thymine (TTP) - the Characters of the code which will be used by the polymerase to replicate the DNA code that the Primers locate.)

The Thermophilic polymerase with a buffer. (works well at 70 centigrade)

[[File:Loaded_PCR.jpg]]

[[File:PCR_cycles_running.jpg]]

The PCR Starts its first cycle!

1. 95 °C Denaturation step. First, you heat the DNA to a high temperature (95 °C) so that the two strands of genomic DNA, and later PCR DNA, separate.

2. Annealing Step (at ~ 50 - 60 °C). Second, you reduce the temperature so that DNA primers bind to either end of the template that you want to amplify. It is important that you have two primers, one to bind to each strand of DNA.

3. Extension Step. Third, you raise the temperature to about 70 °C to activate a DNA polymerase and elongate the primer with respect to the template strand.

This sequence above is repeated about 35 times. This results in 34,359,738,368 copies of the starting DNA sample.

After the first three cycles, we will have the first perfect copy.

POST PCR...

There are several Methods for analysing DNA. Here we are making a gel Chamber for electrophoresis.

This basically is running an a electrical current though some gel. One positive cathode at one end, and the the Negative at the other.

By setting the gel with a 'comb' you create small pockets where the DNA samples can be added along with a tracer.

[[File:Combs_gel_Chamber.jpg]]
The combs in place, ready for the gel to be added..

[[File:Filling_Gel-Chamber.jpg]]
Filling the Chamber with gel. Then leaving it to set, before adding the Traces with Amplified DNA.

My Phone died at this point and some I have no more footage.

File:PCR cycles running.jpg

2016-03-08T23:25:21Z

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2016-03-08T23:23:01Z

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2016-03-08T23:22:36Z

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2016-03-08T23:22:20Z

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