Grid Design

[troyth]

You guys will take the lead on making a grid of Raspberry Pi/Arduinos for Studio-X that other groups may later plug into. You need to sketch this out, figure out exactly what hardware you need, and how much (including wires, power supplies, etc). You also need to figure out how you will mount this so that it doesn't look horrible in the space and is robust.

I'm assigning James to this, but let me know if someone else wants to be assigned. The person who will lead this task will basically be leading the hardware part of your project for the initial setup. You will have to do some testing in situ at Studio-X immediately.

[YifengWu]

I'm interested in it.

[troyth]

ok, i'm switching it to @YifengWu.

@YifengWu please let me know the steps you will take to do this and when you plan to do it - you can add these answers in a comment below here.

[jnquick]

Troy,

I'm fine doing the grid design but I guess I need to know how many arduino/raspberry pis are at my disposal. The previous grid was based on the microphone radius and the assumption of 3 group members = 3 arduinos. The addition of multiple sensors is going to increase our demand because each arduinos only has 6 analog pins. Nailing down the grid is just a matter of determining the range of each sensor and how many we need to map a particular environmental property.

James

On Sunday, September 29, 2013, YifengWu wrote:

I'm interested in it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/site2site/Studio-Analytics/issues/2#issuecomment-25326519 .

James Quick

M.Arch I Candidate, 2015 GSAPP, Columbia University P: (845) 332 0423 E: j.n.quick@gmail.com jnq2000@columbia.edu

[troyth]

Thanks @jnquick. I think you should help @YifengWu, but let him take the lead on this one. I think you're a good fit for issue #3, which is the first major coding hurdle.

Assume you have 7 Raspberry Pi/Arduinosetups - 3 from your group, 3 from The Voice of Studio-X group, and one from the Studio-X Press group. The other constraint is going to be how many mics feeds Johnny-Five and a Raspberry Pi can handle at once. You will have to sort this out in issue #3 and #5 - @jnquick should focus on #3 and #5, and @YifengWu on #2 for now.

@YifengWu: you should start by figuring out how to mount the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and microphone setup in Studio-X. Will you build a case for it? This will need to be designed. Will you run an extension cord up to the ceiling? Will you hang the microphones, or have them close to the ceiling? Start here, and once @jnquick has more information about how many microphones can be connected to each assembly, you can together work out the grid design further.

@YifengWu: report on your progress with the mounting assembly below.

[YifengWu]

Ok, I will start working on it. Maybe we can meet you in the office on Monday to discuss it a little bit.

[troyth]

Yeah, that would be great. @YifengWu and @jnquick if you can come by Monday, Sept 30, between 10am and 1:30pm, that would work well. Sign up for an appointment on the wiki office hours page and shoot me an email to confirm.

[yifeng-zz]

Hi, you added me as collaborator by accident, please remove me. Thanks!

Yifeng Chen

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From: Troy Conrad Therrien notifications@github.com To: site2site/Studio-Analytics Studio-Analytics@noreply.github.com Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:46 PM Subject: [Studio-Analytics] Grid Design (#2)

You guys will take the lead on making a grid of Raspberry Pi/Arduinos for Studio-X that other groups may later plug into. You need to sketch this out, figure out exactly what hardware you need, and how much (including wires, power supplies, etc). You also need to figure out how you will mount this so that it doesn't look horrible in the space and is robust. I'm assigning James to this, but let me know if someone else wants to be assigned. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[troyth]

hi @yifeng - my apologies. I removed you on Friday. Are you getting issues updates?

[YifengWu]

[YifengWu]

Hi, here's the box, the arduino and raspberry will be inside. The other stuff will be on the top. We will use transparent plastic to make it. For now, I can make a sample in wood, but I don't have small pillars so it will be hard to put them together. If it's fine, we will discuss to buy all the material we need later.

[YifengWu]

@troyth I think that we also need to figure out how we will put these boxes (vertical on the wall or put flat on the floor or somewhere)