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My online presence at the ID-Studiolab

Some of the software I write makes it to a shape that allows me to share it. Contact me if you want more info.

Phidgets

In 2005 we started using the phidgets from Phidget Inc. for our courses on interactive technology design. At the time, access to phidgets hardware was not supported from the development environment we use to model product functionality, Max from Cycling74. I wrote the first set of phidgets objects for Max on Windows so we could run our course. However currently there is excellent support for accessing phidgets from Max by Phidgets Inc. you can download that from their website: in the beta downloads section.

Bytestuffing

At the ID-Studiolab we are developing prototypes with sometimes many sensors and actuators. For these type of prototypes we tend to develop a low-level type of binary command-language for reading sensor values and setting the actuators. In this context the bytestuffiing of the bytes that are send back and forth gives an easy way te determine the beginning and end of a command. The linked archive file contains a Max 4.5 object for decoding a bytestuffed byte stream and a patch to encode binary data as a bytestuffed stream of binary data.

MacOSX UB Max/MSP 4.6 (zip) / WindowsXP Max/MSP 4.5 (zip) / MacOSX PPC Max/MSP 4.5 (sit)

OTUDP front-end

Two Max/MSP objects, list2datagram and it's partner datagram2list facilitate an easy to use communication channel through UDP sockets. The objects rely on the otudp object to do the actual network communication. List2datagram and datgram2list allow sending/receiving of standard Max/MSP-type lists.

otudp download page
list2datagram and datagram2list download
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EasyKey reader

At one time we required the automatic recognition of items. For this we used the EasyKey system sold by a German company: IQ-Automation (website). A first trial with this EasyKey system was run in Max/MSP by Cycling74, so I wrote an Max object that helps dealing with input from an EasyKey reader system.

Flock Of Birds

We have several Flock of Birds systems lying around from the VR-research projects. To extend the life of these systems I've written a Max/MSP object that is capable of configuring settings and reading data from this 6DOF sensor. The object was for a Max version on MacOS9. It is currently no longer used, concact me if you are interested in this.

Last update: Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 10:28:15 PM