may i suggest taking a look at the interface-z stuff? they are paris based and have a host of very reliable boxes and
sensors to hook up with pd via midi. their stuff is very solid, low priced and they have some pd-patches
for basic interfacing on their site. www.interface-z.com

hth, hans

hans w. koch im krahnenhof 11 d-50668 koeln +49-221-554902 www.hans-w-koch.net

Am 23.12.2005 um 19:21 schrieb pd-list-request@iem.at:

Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:34:28 -0000 From: "Nuno Godinho" eu@nunogodinho.com Subject: [PD] Which sensor controller should I use with PD? To: "'PD-List'" pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: E1Epm87-0007Hn-00@mail.iem.at Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi,

I first started using PD a couple of weeks ago because I am
building a small interactive video project which needs to read values from a bend- sensor.

To be more specific, I will have PD play a video loop. If you blow
on the bend-sensor (attached to a paper sheet which will work as a sail),
PD will show different video loops. It will have different video loops for
different blowing strengths. Once you stop blowing it will switch back to the
initial video loop.

So basically I just need to receive inputs from a sensor. I am not
into electronics so I wouldn't want to build my own sensors controller.
Also, although I am a programmer I'd rather not have to learn to build
complex programs in order to just read a simple sensor into PD. My question
is: which solution or solutions would you advise me to use?

At the same time if I'm buying something I'd like to be able to use
it in the future for other interactive projects I may do in the future so
the solution I choose should be flexible.

I knew about I-CubeX but it's way to expensive.

I knew about TELEO but forgot about them when I learned that it
didn't use MIDI. Now I was told that after all MIDI is not even a good
solution since it is so slow so maybe TELEO is fine after all. Alto it seems to be
modular enough to grow with my future needs. Would you use TELEO? I asked MakingThings (they build TELEO) if Teleo supports PD and they told
me it doesn't but they eventually plan to add support to PD in the
future. Do you know if I can still use TELEO with PD using HID or something else
and if it is reasonable to use it for my purposes?

I read about Arduino but I got a little scared with the online
examples because it seems that you have to program the board even to read a
simple sensor. Isn't this overkill for what I want? I also read about home- built controllers. I guess I could learn how to do it, but I am working
on so many projects at the same time and have so few time that I'd rather be
working on an upper lever of abstraction instead of reinventing the wheel.
Anyway maybe I'm wrong. What do you think?

I heard about Christian Klippel's MultIO and heard it's good but I
know nothing about it. Would it do what I need?

So, after all my loose ideas: What controller would you advise me to use? Also, do you know where I can buy a nice bend sensor?

Thank you! Nuno