Artist statement - refined

My project is an interactive audio visual installation. Initially, this idea is inspired by water issue in Malaysia where some parts of this country was facing water shortage problems. I have researched about the lackadaisical attitude of Malaysians towards environmental issues; water be one of the main ones.

I want to promote appreciation towards water through video and sound, creating an experience for people to experiment with the various sound of water and at the same time enjoy the visuals. The visual metaphor of my work are the buckets, closely related to medium to carry water and its significant use especially during water shortage period.

"Water is the driving force of all nature." a quote by Leonardo da Vinci. This is a message that I hope everyone could bear in mind.

Testing 5 sensors together.

pic 1. side view of self-made male jumper wires on breadboard.

pic 2. 1 sensor connected look.

pic 3. connecting 5 sensors.

pic 4. This is how my maxpatch looks like. I modified from the Arduino2max test patch.

Budget list

Equipments list:

Speakers 2.1 / surround

Projector ( install top down)

Small table ( for laptop)

Max 5 until 1/6/2011

Printscreen from here.

I wish I did not update the Max5 5.0.6 to 5.1.3.

I wish I can still use the UDR.

but what is done is done!

Before the decision made, I went through finding alternatives way to reactivate the demo Maxmsp. I failed. then I thought maybe I could install Windows in my Mac instead and reinstall all the needed software. At the same time, Crit 03 is soon and panic, nervous, stress all come in once. and I still have loads of stuff yet to be done.

In short, to stop wasting time on all the hassles, I bought it!

Perhaps after this month I might still be using Maxmsp for other upcoming projects.

Now I can continue with my journey.

:)

New Clothes On!

Have u realized it?
I uploaded new template!

It was like this.

I'm sure it looks better with what you're seeing right now.

workplace/ progress

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Arduino communicates with Maxmsp

Getting Arduino to communicate with Maxmsp should not be too difficult. I was lucky enough to make it work with this max patch ' Arduino2max', written specially for what i need most in my project.

You may read more about Arduino2max and download it here.

I still have one big problem here.

After the first test out which was successful ( as shown in the below video) , it is not working anymore until now. (that's why I said I was lucky)

working on it right now. hoping to get it fixed as soon as possible.

*May luck be with me!*

is checking out more about Maxuino, different versions of Arduino IDE ( maybe the updated version doesn't work in this case) and Pure data + arduino , etc relevant stuff.

ps: Thank you Cheesehed!