fromCONCENTRATE » analog http://www.fromconcentrate.net research blog of artist John O'Shea Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Analog to Digital http://www.fromconcentrate.net/2009/12/09/analog-to-digital/ http://www.fromconcentrate.net/2009/12/09/analog-to-digital/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:42:33 +0000 John_0 http://www.fromconcentrate.net/?p=166 Cheap potentiometer only does part of a turn – need ‘continuous’ turn to realise piece.
Went shopping for continuous potentiometer – consumer approach – but was informed that such components don’t tend to be stocked – insufficient demand.

Assumption – scarcity means that ‘continuous potentiometer’ requires ’special’ technical facility.

Jamie – probably just something in there stopping it going all the way round…

take apart

Take apart – discovery – OBVIOUS! – ‘afraid to look under the hood’

Now – Arduino needs to communicate with MAX over SERIAL port – Short answer – NOT WORKING!

OSC_Dirty_Hack

Joey provides workaround in shape ov OpenFrameworks application (have the feeling I’ll be using O.F. a lot more…)

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