Alex Braidwood    MFA Candidate | Graduate Media Design Program | Art Center College of Design

Fruit Loops – Capacitive Sensing Test

This exploration that I’ve created for the New Ecology of Things (NET) looks at ways in which normal use and gesture can become interface. The parameters of the project are to create a useless network that pokes fun at the idea of the information cloud in some clever or interesting way. This is not that project. This is simply my initial technical sketch to get my wiring correct so that it properly senses the individual touching of multiple objects.

The audio loops being controlled in this demo are some results from my bent keyboard experiment.

The earlier, fruitless version of my sensing setup: