Created during the E-Textile Pressure Cooker at STEIM in collaboration with Dieter Vandoren and Jonathan Reus. This pair of gloves has LEDs on one hand and photodiodes on the other. The LEDs on each finger can be pulsed (PWM) at different frequencies and the circuit on the photodiode glove translates the received light frequency directly into sound.

more coming soon…

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Step-by-Step

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LIGHT GLOVE CIRCUIT: ATtiny84 Analog In PWM Out

Using the following circuit:

SOUND GLOVE CIRCUIT: Photo-Diode Pre-Amp Circuit

Using the following circuit:

Which is a modified version (by Dieter Vandoren) of this LM386 diode pre-amp circuit:
>> http://www.rason.org/Projects/icamps/icamps.htm

Another light to sound converter circuit:
>> http://macumbista.net/?page_id=539

Links

LM386 datasheet >> http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm386.pdf
Arduino Micro >> http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMicro
ATtiny84 Datasheet >> http://www.atmel.com/Images/8006S.pdf
Code on GitHub >> https://github.com/plusea/CODE

Inspiration/References

Shadow Puppet? >> http://iiinitiative.org/work/shadow-puppet-2/
Dieter >> http://dietervandoren.net/
Mariska >> http://iiinitiative.org/artist/mariska-de-groot/
Derek Holzer >> http://macumbista.net/
leafcutterjohn >> http://leafcutterjohn.com/

More photos on Flickr

>> Frequency Finger Set

Photos by Riccardo:

photos by mika