Yesterday (or really this morning at 1:30am) was the first time I got to see my music visualizer in action! I’m so happy I finally got the chance to finish this, and super lucky I was able to convince my professor to let me use it as a final project (if it’s for class I have an excuse to spend time on it!).
I had the craving to make a large-scale wall music visualizer about a year ago, and came up with the idea to use soft circuits on the flight back from San Francisco this past summer. Using soft circuits meant that it could be flexible, light, easy to hang up and super easy to transport (compared to my original idea using plastic LED diffusing plates).
This was created using an Arduino microcontroller, and takes input from ambient noise in a room (not through a cable/mp3 player) using an electret mic circuit. It’s still not completely finished and I plan on making a new and improved one in the near future, but for now I am very very happy I got something done. c;
In case anyone has questions about it or wants to try and create their own, I have a wiki page (for class, haha) full of information and links. :] I would have included the information in this post but it would have ended up obnoxiously long.. If you have any additional questions I’d be happy to help~
finished an eight page research paper and now I’m finishing up my music visualizer for tomorrow ;o
I managed to convince my professor to let me use my unfinished summer project as my final project for ECE, haha.. finally got to spend time on it because it’s for class now.
After I turn in my final video project on monday I will be pretty much free for the rest of the semester. *o* I have two finals after that but they don’t really count because I have almost two weeks to study for them~
(Soon I will be back to normal blogging, and then winter blogging!! Winter means free time for all the projects I didn’t have time to do during the semester.)
I’ll need to find a reason to make these some day.
this is what I’m working on right now :]]
eventually this will hopefully be an electronic music visualizer that you can hang up on the wall. the rectangles will light up in response to music played in a room.
it’s going to be a soft circuit (a soft circuit is made up of conductive thread and fabric instead of soldering and pcb boards) so that you can roll it up for storage and transport, and easily pin up because it is lightweight. :D
just found this today. for those of you who don’t know, I’m studying in new media and am super interested in wearable and soft-circuit technology :]
If I’m not online for awhile it probably means I’m working on this~
Just finished this circuit last night to pre-amplify an electret mic.. it picks up ambient noise live and outputs the values of it. :DD
I’m working on a personal project that I’ll explain more about later (once I figure out if I can actually get it to work or not). ;p
1/2 final projects done for this class :D;
one of the final projects in my interactivity class was to create something visual programmed with processing. I made a music visualizer using the ess library (audio input is coming live from the mic). I’m imagining this projected on a wall for a party..
can you tell what the image/graphic is supposed to depict? I’ve been working with it so long that I’m not sure it looks like what I want it to… D;
it took me forever but I finally got something to workkk
the visualizer in the video is taking input from the microphone on the computer (and not a song file), so it’s processing the information in real-time :D
I used the FrequencyEnergy example to get me started and went from there. one of the most irritating parts was getting the input to come from the microphone, but I found a lot of information here that helped. it’s still rather buggy but I’m happy it’s at least doing something xD
my final goal is to create a music visualizer wall decoration for my apartment with caro, using leds and light diffusing plates similar to these. now all I need is the time to do it..
![this is what I’m working on right now :]]
eventually this will hopefully be an electronic music visualizer that you can hang up on the wall. the rectangles will light up in response to music played in a room.
it’s going to be a soft circuit (a soft circuit is made up of conductive thread and fabric instead of soldering and pcb boards) so that you can roll it up for storage and transport, and easily pin up because it is lightweight. :D
edit: I got the leds to start working here..](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnw5qrHogz1qbf0z9o1_500.jpg)
