cimo Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Believe it or not this is my latest MIDIBoxI ve installed a 90A car battery in the dress (yes it goes on wheel), about 50 12 volts halogen lamps were installed in the "tentacles" of the dress, the lamps were divided in 24 groups, each group was wired to a power transistor 2n3055, each 2n3055 to a 2n2222 then into a DOUT pin.I used very basic C app that responded to MIDI notes sent by Ableton, i mixed the 3 minutes music for the show so i created a MIDI file/pattern to synch the lights with the music.To overcome the problem of having to start the MIDI file in Ableton at a given time (ie when the guys at the mixer started the music) i decided to go wireless with a Wiimote to start Ableton (via a little program called Osculator), another issue was to eventually adjust the lights to the music in case i didn t start it at the right time so i wrote a little PureData patch that let me use 2 buttons on the wiimote to speed up or down the tempo in Ableton. I also used PureData to prototype and "virtualize" the dress appearance before hand when it was not build yet, so i could start programming the lights.The sad note is that i got hold of lamps and transistor about 36 hours before the show so i had no the time to wire them up correctly, that is although the lights were synchronised all the nice left to right up-down movements were lost for a more "randomized" effect, i hope i can get hold of some vid soon.Special thanks to Stryd (C advise), Nils (material forwarding), Lucem and Philtaylor (DOUT-power transistor circuit)... and TK! oh well and Lourdes who carried around the over 300 Kg carnival dress without a itch.Simone..you can actually see me dressed in black, short sleeves in the left side background, holding the wiimote ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Nice one ;D I hereby nominate this for the "Oddest Midibox Of the Year" Award! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucem Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Whee!cimo can haz cookie!!!!1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Nice one ;D I hereby nominate this for the "Oddest Midibox Of the Year" Award!Seconded, thirded, moved to MBOTW... uhm... We shoud blog it... uhm.... Cimo I need video and uhm... Lourdes' phone number. Grrrrowl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philetaylor Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 That looks great cimo, i'm glad it all worked ok!Can't wait to see the video.....Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futureman Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Cool!!Where do I sign up for the bulk order?Will smash be making the dress?Can I have mine in a different colour?RegardsMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimo Posted February 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Thanksplease stop PMing me asking for details about Lourdes ;)some other aspects of the dress, not MB related:as you can see she wears a kinda crown of tentacles, there are an iPhone and iPod attached on 2 of them with a movie of her mouth grinning and doing weird things as well as a vid of her eye.It s not so easy to see it but there is a rock (swing?) in the dress, she would sit on it, unlock the safety and jump all the way 6 meters high, on the other side of the swing we installed a 17 inches screen (together with over 40 kilos to balance her weight) connected to my laptop and a UPS source and we played the same video of her mouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Geez it was already bigger than ben hur... Then you add all that! That's really amazing man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sineSurfer Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 good job cimo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Lourdes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBunsen Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Seconded :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackazong Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Wow. Simply wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twin-X Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Great stuff.How did the crowd respond to your creation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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