Month 2 maybe 3

[Kenneth Harte]

Hello,

So it's Max month 2 or 3 not sure. I have been busy patching and experiementing.

The first month I was building an interface for a touchscreen sequencer. It's finished~ (at least until I go back and make it sample accurate ;). I bought the touchscreen overlay for $65 and got a 15" LCD for free. I'm now building a wooden case for them. The touchscreen works great. It's very sensitive to touch, their is almost no latency and as long as you design your front end for fat fingers then it's no problem getting around.

Other things; I bought a wii remote, a webcam, I got the lend of a joystick and I am slowly trying to experiment with them all. The wiimote gives me wireless accelerometers and 11 buttons, the webcam is going to be used for motion colour tracking (if I can figure it out) and the joystick is going to used for some some good old tweaky fun. I haven't designed any performance patches yet with the controls. I have made a small effects like stomp box to be used with the wiimote. Good fun but not tremendously useful yet.

I also have now made contact with a few dancers. Hopefully we are going to start experimenting with techno dance as they call it :) I sent them to Dance-Tech.net and they loved the vids. It really excited them but now I'm under pressure to do something cool. A friend can get the use of 6 proximity sensors and maybe some body contacts. Between that and the wii and motion tracking hopefully we'll be able to do something simple but effective.

Well that's month 2 or 3. I'm experimenting with different controls than I've used before. I am trying to build interfaces and I have a meeting with the dancers tommorow to talk about the Techno Dance ;)

Next month - Headaches, heartaches and Max Crashes ( hopefully not)