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Pneumatic Playground - Week #2-4

11/8/2016

 

Summary:

Three MICS setup around the lab. Any speech in the room directly inflated a 9' weather balloon. Sections of speech gets stored in a buffer. When the balloon is in idle mood, buffer is on delay, sounding as if there are lost voices stored in the balloon. As of now when you hit a switch the balloon will deflate spilling the contents of buffer at first from inside the balloon (with speaker setup inside) and slowly ramps to the second speaker directly above where the ballon chamber spill. Please see video below for a bit of clarification. 

Atmospheres Prototype #2 from Nima Navab on Vimeo.

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Deflation Experiments
Due to the rapid rate of deflation, not enough time is provided for the buffer to spill enough speech that becomes interesting. We tried outputting through 4 empty pneumatic valves but were not successful as the openings of the flow valves proved to be too small. This failure led to an important finding:
  • Inflation based on pressure does not rely on the size of opening since pressure is constant
  • But for deflation, separate valves with various openings need to be consistent to create range

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