Tag Archives: PanStamp

Interactive Elements

Inside the Story: Visualisation of Gortsbys Thoughts

SCENE 2

Introduction into Gortsbys thoughts

Video Mapping on Stage elements / Video Manipulation via Voice Sensor

thoughts scene 2.1

“Sieh nicht hinauf, die Antwort ist nicht dort, bete nicht, dort ist nicht einer der sich sorgt…”

Thoughts Scene 2

“…sicher liebt er, wenn das Klirren der Gläser erklingt.”

 

When Gortsby sits on the bench, his thoughts appears on the stage elements. The brightness of the video is influenced by his voice via wireless microphone. In other words, as the actor cites the poem, the video content can be viewed by audience.

 

SCENE 3

Projektion/ Visualisation Forlorn Orchestra / Gortsbys thoughts

Thoughts Scene 3.1

 

Gortsby & Elder man / Forlorn Orchestra Sound / Projection of Gortsbys thoughts

 

thoughts scene 3.2

 

SCENE 5 The SOAP

Videomanipulation via Heartbeatsenor

testing 2

 

Where to put the sensor best?

 

Testing heartbeatsensor

 

Introduction how to use the Heartbeatsensor

 

demo heartbeat

 

Demonstration of the Waterripple-Effect

soap video1#

Visualisation of Gortsbys thoughts: Gortsby thinks about the story younger man told him. The Video bubbles in the scale of Gortsbys heartbeat. Sound of the heartbeat makes the interactive effect more visible/hearable. Essentially, the higher the heart rate, the more  visually visible the ripple in the projection of the “soap bubble”. The effect above is achieved by integrating the heartbeat sensor to panStamp for wireless transmission

 

soap video

 

“…die Seife  war das einzig überzeugende Detail an der ganzen Geschichte…”

Technology

Realization with panStamp and pulse sensor

Following the Food for “Thought” , we continued to discuss our ideas. A good thing is that the script was out, so based on it,  we get a general concept of how things will be. As for technical side, panStamp and pulse sensor were chosen for the next phase

PanStampIMG_20150122_131355

We need to send information from the sensor on the stage to the computer. That is where PanStamp comes in

The PanStamp battery board is our sender- read signal from the sensor and pass it to the PanStick. A bit of soldering work is done on the battery board, mainly for the mobility of using sensor- instead of fixing the sensor, we can remove it at will.

While the energy source is 1.5V AA battery, PanStamp battery board itself can amplify it to 3.3V.

The PanStick reads wireless transmission from PanStamp battery and pass it to the computer via Serial protocol.

Pulse sensor

IMG_20150122_131444

Pulse sensor uses the principle of light-sensing in order to calculate the heartbeat. It is assumed that when the heart beats, there is some kind of shockwave throughout our body. From that perspective, the beat-per-minute (BPM) and interval -between-heartbeat(IBM) can be measured.

It was kind of a fun journey with the pulse sensor. At the beginning, the result was unstable , but after a while of tinkering, this pulse sensor does what it is supposed to do. Still, low power supply usage can be quite deceptive since the sensor “appears” to be working fine , but instead, you will need to change the code–or to wire it differently.

The guide for it can be found here: Guide for Pulse-sensor

The Pulse sensor ,in our project, shall be wired to the PanStamp battery board.

Model of our approach

The model of our approach