Jenkins and I have been working for a few weeks on this bluetooth data logger idea, trying to capture and map the colors and movements of the day. We finished our first “real” prototype for the logger, which looked like this:
And here’s an initial mapping of the data:
Of course, there were a few issues. The biggest so far has been the phone side of the equation — we’ve so far had an Arduino Mini reading three photocells (covered by R, G and B gels), pushed over BlueSMiRF RX/TX pipe to a Nokia N80 which is running a parsing/logging program (written by DanO). However, the cell phone end proved to be a little jenky for what we were trying to do, and getting the data off the phone was another adventure entirely. Going forward, we’re going to try dropping the bluetooth/cell phone part and just use a SD logger. I’ll post updates on that as we get a prototype together.
Also, the graph sucks. After trying several things in Processing and Max/MSP/Jitter, we ended up defaulting to Excel (err, Numbers) to get a visualization, and it’s hella boring. In the next week I’m'a try to Max this up niiiice.
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