Music editing

Post 30

Alright so after an entire month of holiday-ing I have decided to get back to work on the Woo Band. I edited the music and kind of pictured the entire flow with the sound effects and everything.

I created a mock up animation just to put on youtube. Obviously it will resemble nothing of this (as in the art style). It's kind of like a story board. At which point of the music when the graphics will be more aggressive and what not. So here's my little experiment with SUMMERTIME SADNESS:

I have edited 2 mixes so that people wouldn't be bored with just one music. I have another one called ARE YOU READY. Good progress I must say.  HAPPINESS LEVEL: 8

TESTING ARDUINO + RGB BULBS

Post 29

OH GOLLY IT WORKS! I SUCCESSFULLY CONNECTED ARDUINO TO UNITY. LIKE YEAYS.

And my RGB works!
Turns out I couldn't use any other FTDI other than the special FTDI FOR Lilypad.

This is me testing out the accelerometer in Arduino.

Here's a video of me waving it around with unity at the background.

I had an error about an extra unused class but it was just a minor problem. They didn't want me to waste the declaration.

I'm overjoyed. One step closer!

ALL THANKS TO THESE TUTORIALS:

I'm going to add a Happiness level graph later on. I thought I wanted it to be Stress Level, but..it's a little bit discouraging for my tastes.

Happines level : 10

References

LilyPad Arduino, (2013). LilyPad Accelerometer. [online] Available at: http://lilypadarduino.org/?p=384 [Accessed 20 Sep. 2014].

Mengsk, C. (2010). Unity3d + Arduino (Read serial in Unity3d) - Arduino Forum. [online] Forum Arduino. Available at: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php/topic,40001.0.html [Accessed 20 Sep. 2014].

Stackoverflow, (2014). Weird warning : "is assigned but its value is never used". [online] Available at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6330491/weird-warning-is-assigned-but-its-value-is-never-used [Accessed 20 Sep. 2014].

Misery & Linking Arduino to Unity

Post 28

I tried and tried again with my boards but it just couldn't connect.

I keep getting the same errors I got in my Aug 27 post.

Turns out I had to buy a SPECIAL FTDI Breakout board and the one I got from China is not compatible.

So, I have to get a new one. From Singapore.



I'm going to have to use my Adafruit flora to test this out while waiting for my usb chip, the tutorial to link unity and Arduino looks pretty simple.

My adafruit Flora works swimmingly and I got the response I needed. Step 1 complete.

I keep getting errors for the UNITY. Will look more into this soon. I can't seem to find the problem, I followed the tutorial word by word.

I'm going to start on editing the music tomorrow.


Happiness Level : 2

Motion Graphic Tutorials

Post 27

These are a few examples and tutorials I watched today. I needed a proper milestone so I did this today and it's level of difficulty seems pretty okay.

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/the_grid/

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_replicator/

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/shockwaves/

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/advanced_spin_fx/


Happiness Level : 5 (Neutral)

PITCH Presentation

Post 26

A little update, today is the first day of my Sem break!
I gave a talk for EMM about Wearable tech inspired from PPM's final year project:



I will be starting my final semester in November and soon, graduation!

So I presented my PITCH on Friday, 29 August.

I presented my slides Ms. Sweii, Din Tan, Klek, Yee Siang and Yi Weii.

Feedback and questions I got were and I did a little research to finally answer those questions and feedback:

Sweii: You didn't mention about how the number of participants effects the whole experience and the display?

I forgot to mention this in the presentation as well.
Two players, more visuals. 1 player active only, less visuals. No players active, totally weak visuals. Des it.

Klek: What not just do crowd motion tracking instead of making them wear something so brittle?

Honestly, I didn't know why I froze and went blank on the main reasons why I actually chose wearable tech.

The thing is that I didn't even present about how I wanted to replicate lighters, rave rings and phone lights people use during concerts. You see those little white dots in the crowd? Those are cellphones. I want to replace those pretty dots of lights with my LED from my WOO Band, which would be prettier.

I didn't mention about how the gloves would give an LED feedback once they interacted by fist-pumping.
You can't really achieve that with motion tracking the crowd pixels.

As for it being brittle, I'm trying to find a way to make it sturdy and comfortable at the same time.

1. It will have to be water resistant (as raves are often conducted outdoors and are prone to rain and/or if they were foam parties)
2. It has to be flexible and PVC will be totally out of the question because sweating through it is really uncomfortable. Cotton as well, it takes a long time to dry.


Happiness Level : 7

Starting with the Arduino

Post 25


Alright looks like I'm facing the same problem like I've had since Livetags.

I CAN'T ARDUINO ON MY WINDOWS 8.1 LAPTOP.

Apparently the my OS could not recognize the drivers. I'd probably end up using my old desktop to code the Arduinos like last time.

But, the thing is, I need my laptop because it's portable.

Below is the video of what I'm experiencing exactly. Except that I update the drivers from the windows folder. But it keeps saying is already updated with the best drivers. My COMPORT is still not lilypad.

The sketch and tutorial for the RGB LED is Here.

I get this error after uploading my sketch: avrdude stk500_getsync() not in sync resp=0x00

Researched online and it's probably a driver problem.


So this is what I did today.

I hooked up my arduino and it could upload the Basic Blink Sketch. I doesn't loop forever though.

So fix the drivers, I tried installing the FTDI drivers from here but it still wouldn't work.

And this is only the first day.

Happiness Level : 4

References

Buechley, L. (2014). programming the LilyPad Arduino: color (RGB LEDs). [online] Web Media MIT edu. Available at: http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/06_rgb.html [Accessed 27 Aug. 2014].

Ftdichip, (2014). Virtual COM Port Drivers. [online] Available at: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm [Accessed 27 Aug. 2014].

LilyPad Arduino, (2014). Lesson 2: Light (LEDs). [online] Available at: http://lilypadarduino.org/?page_id=212 [Accessed 27 Aug. 2014].

Van Vlymen, B. (2013). problem with serial port Arduino uno on Window 8.1. [online] YouTube. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZpyPgk5NmU [Accessed 27 Aug. 2014].

Some Updates

Post 24

Honestly, I haven't been doing much for this subject since there were so many other demands and submissions from other subjects.

Anyway, this will be the benchmark for my motion graphics. It's EDM too so you will get a very clear idea on the direction of Graphics I'm going to.




PLAYLIST Here's the whole playlist of all the edm lyric videos.

I'm also downloading XCTU and should start the coding soon. Here's the link to the PREZI of my PITCH.

It's updated LIVE, so you could creepily observe my every move and every edit.

http://prezi.com/eg76l5ilkon2/woo-band/ I have embed it here. You can play it here as well.

I did not design the polygon graphics, it's one of the latest templates Prezi uploaded. I figured I could use it because it is sooo beautiful and it kind of symbolizes my need for progress to success. I'm really just crapping here, I just really like the colors and the graphics.

I also bought the wireless router today at RM80 at Pyramid and had no problem shopping around for it with the Lawyat buying guide that Yee Siang gave to me. It is also similar to Yaw's.

Happiness Level : 5 (Neutral)

References

prezi.com, (2014). Prezi - Presentation Software. [online] Available at: http://prezi.com [Accessed 25 Aug. 2014].

Youtube.com, (2014). EDM Lyric Videos - YouTube. [online] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aXabcnTljy22HK0mrtHpxBjZbdBqhZz [Accessed 25 Aug. 2014].

VEVO, Z. (2014). Zedd - Find You - [Lyric Video] ft. Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant. [online] YouTube. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vFLW-idOxk [Accessed 25 Aug. 2014].