This works in concert with https://github.com/prismspecs/ofMedbed, which requires openFrameworks. The basic flow of the program is that the Arduino sketch (located in this repo under ...) acts as an interface to the sculpture hardware like the motor controller, etc. The openFrameworks app loads a video ("final.mov" in the bin/data directory of that app) and the timestamp.json file in the same folder. It uses that to send signals to the Arduino at specified times during the video. To edit the video, use editor.html in this repo, which will generate a timestamp file.
Installation
To do:
Add video load button to change video
Setup and Useage
- New 24v motor
- Video on how to control big motors with Arduino
- Motor Shield R3 w Stepper tutorial
- List of Motor Drivers
- Another motor driver
Create a website that has a video "video.mp4" which takes up at maximum 50% of the page width. There should be a toolbar below the video with a button "Add Timestamp". There should be a JSON array "timestampArray".
Clicking "Add Timestamp" adds a timestamp to the JSON array using the video's current timestamp. The contents of the JSON array should also appear at the right side of the window. Each timestamp should be an editable text box. For each timestamp, there should also be a dropdown menu with the following options: "Motor 1", "Motor 2", "Motor 3", and "Lights". For each timestamp there should also be a textbox "Value" which accepts integer values. Selecting a value from the dropdown list, or editing the integer value, or editing the timestamp value should update the JSON array. The objects in the array should contain a timestamp, a value from the dropdown list, and an integer value.
Furthermore, each timestamp which appears at the right side of the screen should have a "Delete" buttons. The Delete button removes that timestamp object from the browser as well as the array.
In the toolbar below the video, there should be "Save" and "Load" buttons which allow the user to save and load the json array from a text file.
Player
Create a node.js project that reads a file, timestamps.json, and plays a video, video.mp4, in full screen. The json file is full of objects that contain timecodes, looking like this:
[ { "time": 0, "selectedOption": "Lights", "integerValue": 55 }, { "time": 1, "selectedOption": "Motor 1", "integerValue": 23 } ]
When one of these timecodes is passed in the video, it should print a line in the console with the other information (selectedOption and integerValue). These should only be displayed once. In addition to displaying that information in the console, it should be sent to Arduino via Serial communication.