daniel bates

So about this detail. What I wanted was an interactive setup of some kind. Proximity sensing seemed like a cool idea. Ultrasonic proximity sensing is cheap, effective and simple to set up. The visualisation changing as someone approached the exhibition seemed to make sense. The flow of information eventually could be described like this: The proximity sensor was a Maxbotix LV-EZ0 which is described here . It was incredibly simple to solder and connect to the Arduino and comes in a variety of field angles i.e. narrow beam or wide beam. The Arduino sketch I used can be downloaded from here . It's a default one from the Max6 tutorial files except modified for a low baud rate (less CPU processing). Vizzie is a component of Max (version 5.1.7 or later) that is all about video control and effects. The same download above includes the Max6 patch which uses Vizzie objects. It used a simple serial read function to cross-fade between two videos. The mathematical function I us...

Thought I'd share the canopy I designed to go over my final year project boards. I used Rhino/Grasshopper to parametrically divide a face into a skewed grid, each skewed square then divided into triangles which are themselves offset inwards. The outer and inner offset curves created space for the holes and left space for the material of the ply. I judges the amount of offset intuiting the amount to cut out without making the piece too weak. The design was originally in three parts due to the size limitations of the university CNC machine. The machine broke the week before the exhibition! Therefore I outsourced. Thankfully, Gee Cee Joinery (http://www.geeceejoinery.co.uk/) helped me out at a reasonable price, and within a day I had a perfectly CNC cut piece of ply. I'm sure you'll agree, the effect is quite pleasing aesthetically. The presentation boards themselves will soon be on my design portfolio . The projector showed a video slide show contro...