Hi All, Hi Ian,
I'm not too biased cause I only just got it - but then again I do look alternate controllers, so . .. . .. My initial appraisal is that it works very well indeed - 0 -63 values via bend sensors on the fingers, +/- ~ 800 values of x,y,z location in front of a receiver unit and 3 switches accessable by the left hand ( the unit is right hand only) all work quite well and patched into PD easily. Active opensource development on various platforms and a variety of available apps providing MIDI or OSC streams of glove data. On my Mac I get all the above data as an OSC stream in PD where it is up to me to do what I want with. My first project is a basic theremin with pitch, volume, modulation, tone, reverb, etc as hand controlled parameters. Should be fun ;-) but there are defenitely more ambitious projects to be tackled later. Apparently they were originally about $100 US - now $12-50 at computergeeks.com so get yourself a few and hack the extras - view it as a FSR and localisation development kit Checkout the EssentialReality web sight for more details.
On Saturday, September 18, 2004, at 02:30 PM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:13:22 -0400 From: Ian Smith-Heisters heisters@0x09.com To: Macciza raien@tpg.com.au CC: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] P5 glove use and development
Hmmm... I'm tempted to get one just because it's so cheap. Does it work nicely or is it just gimicky? (I guess I can expect you to be kinda biased).
-Ian
Macciza wrote:
G'day to all, My names Macciza Macpherson and I'm in Sydney, Australia.
Just got my dual P5 shipment from ComputerGeeks.com (That sounds kinda weird ?;-) Thanks to Ross Bencina for rekindling the interest after seeing him at UWS Nepean. And the postings on this list. Missed the first batch from computergeeks but the have them in stock again now at US$12.50 each. Best price - elsewhere $20 plus. Though the $40 dollars postage made it a bit odd. I wonder how many you can get for the same postage?
Got it up and running very quickly on OSX 10.2.8 using Tim Kregers's p5osc package and Calibrator.app (Thanks heaps Tim for all the help so far. ;-) Patched it into Pd-0.38 very easily and starting to develop some stuff there. Nothing specific just confirming the OSC stream and controlling a few oscillators. I'm just getting back into pd and so I'm just mucking about for the moment. Would anybody have any patches that I could rework to use the glove as a controller, it would be appreciated, I'm working through the examples etc. but would really like something more complete. Now to look at SC and the rest of the stable to see what is possible! Cool! Might even have get a 'PC' to do AudioMulch stuff, damn! Any suggestions?
I would be interested in chatting with anybody else who is using the p5 particularly on the Mac platform. Also interested in any Mac specific/compatible source code for further development. Feel free to contact me either on or off list to pursue any of these matters.
Cheers all, Macciza Macpherson