Surprises
It's been an eventful and suprising week.
I started working as an assistant to a graduate student at Hunter to help her install some interactive art projects. One project, in particular, is an interactive drum. We went through the design process and started looking at how we wanted to build it. Basically, the drum will have capacitance sensors on different zones. These will map to animation effects of a virtual dancer playing on a screen.
I spent some time looking around at the usual places for the right sensor. I spoke with the sales rep from Tapeswitch and he is sending me a bunch of flex sensor samples for free.
But, then I discovered a "pre-built" sensor circuit from QMatrix. Here is the link to their development board: http://www.qprox.com/products/e6xx.php
It's ($180 bucks through digikey).
I can't just buy the chip because there is a minimum order requirment of 160.
Anyway, it seems like something worth investigating. My question is how to assemble the "interdigitated electrodes" used for sensing. Is this a difficult process? How is it done? not sure.
I also installed and set up MAX/MSP. The software is awesome! I had a MIDI connection up and running within like, 30 seconds. Then, I started to get really excited about all the stuff I could do so easily and I hooked up my receiver with the creative audigy 2 sound card on my PC. I plugged in a microphone into the mic input of the sound card and then there was this loud beep. I unplugged everything. I plugged the card inputs back in, and powered up. No noise. Nothing. Then, as I'm troubleshooting, I see that my PC does not recognize the sound card anymore. It is not found. Yikes!
I restart. Now, the operating system will not load. A parity error in the hardware has been detected and I must contact my hardware vendor.
Oooooo-kkayyy.
I would remove the sound card and maybe try putting it back again to see if that helps, but I have a warranty and I'm going to run it down to the place where I bought the card. I can't believe that a bad sound card would stop Windows from loading. Right now I am working on the Linux partition of the PC, and it's fine. So, hopfully replacing the card will enable Windows again.
I started working as an assistant to a graduate student at Hunter to help her install some interactive art projects. One project, in particular, is an interactive drum. We went through the design process and started looking at how we wanted to build it. Basically, the drum will have capacitance sensors on different zones. These will map to animation effects of a virtual dancer playing on a screen.
I spent some time looking around at the usual places for the right sensor. I spoke with the sales rep from Tapeswitch and he is sending me a bunch of flex sensor samples for free.
But, then I discovered a "pre-built" sensor circuit from QMatrix. Here is the link to their development board: http://www.qprox.com/products/e6xx.php
It's ($180 bucks through digikey).
I can't just buy the chip because there is a minimum order requirment of 160.
Anyway, it seems like something worth investigating. My question is how to assemble the "interdigitated electrodes" used for sensing. Is this a difficult process? How is it done? not sure.
I also installed and set up MAX/MSP. The software is awesome! I had a MIDI connection up and running within like, 30 seconds. Then, I started to get really excited about all the stuff I could do so easily and I hooked up my receiver with the creative audigy 2 sound card on my PC. I plugged in a microphone into the mic input of the sound card and then there was this loud beep. I unplugged everything. I plugged the card inputs back in, and powered up. No noise. Nothing. Then, as I'm troubleshooting, I see that my PC does not recognize the sound card anymore. It is not found. Yikes!
I restart. Now, the operating system will not load. A parity error in the hardware has been detected and I must contact my hardware vendor.
Oooooo-kkayyy.
I would remove the sound card and maybe try putting it back again to see if that helps, but I have a warranty and I'm going to run it down to the place where I bought the card. I can't believe that a bad sound card would stop Windows from loading. Right now I am working on the Linux partition of the PC, and it's fine. So, hopfully replacing the card will enable Windows again.
posted by Denali at 9:01 AM
1 Comments:
Turns out, removing, dancing around chanting, and then reinstalling the sound card to a seperate port fixed everything...
I guess the Windows O.S. depends on the same bus that the audio card uses, so if the card is messed up, then Widows won't load.
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