Getting in touch . . .

Posted on 25 March 2012 by Jason

If you have any questions or ideas, please share them with us! You can now contact the netChimes development team at info@netchimes.org.
We look forward to hearing from you.

netChimes Development Team

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netChims ArduinoBot

Posted on 19 March 2012 by Jason

We are still working behind the scenes to prepare an installation for Arts.on.Wires 2012 in Oslo in early May. One of the new developments, just put together this past week, has been the use of IRC (internet relay chat) to serve as the communications backbone for talking between distributed sensors and chime sets. In the past we had been using the OSC protocol (plus OSC Groups and OSC Client) to shuttle information around. Though a great protocol, OSC (being UDP) was not friendly to commercial routers and firewalls. Since our desire is to provide the possibility of putting chime sensors and sets into the hands of everyone, we needed a more readily available, TCP/IP based solution.

We are somewhere between the 4th and 5th version of our netChimes bot, which sits on the Arduino board, connecting to the network via the readily available Ethernet shield. Now the Arduino can be a standalone piece of hardware, parsing messages and sending sensor pings across the network via a channel on the freenode.net IRC network. No other hardware (read, computer in the corner) necessary.

We hope to release this software in the next few weeks prior to Arts.on.Wires. We will keep you posted!

netChimes DevGroup

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netChimes proposal for CHI2012

Posted on 23 January 2012 by Jason

netChimes: CHI2012 Proposal from nanofortran on Vimeo.

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netChimes Update

Posted on 6 January 2012 by Jason

It would be fair to say that our academic and personal commitments have taken us away from the world of netChimes over the past few months.  But, we are moving ahead with development, which will probably be significantly improved as I am completing my post-doctoral position and returning to Chicago to develop some personal projects (along with netChimes, of course.)

So, watch (or listen) to this space in February.

Jason

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Tromsø1 and Tromsø2

Posted on 23 May 2011 by Jason

Tromso1 and Tromso2 are online . . .

Also, thanks to Brock and Tom for helping with the launch for netChimes.  Their help and insight during the past few weeks to test the network and update this website with timely information have kept me going this month.  Looking forward to adding Patrick and others soon.

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London sensor is online

Posted on 22 May 2011 by Brock

The London site prototype is up and running. The sensor is a bit simple, but it’s effective. The data is currently being sent up to the London site Shoutcast server. You can listen to the stream by going to the NetChimes Shoutcast server for London and selecting the Listen link in the middle of the page. You will receive a “playlist” file which can be opened in iTunes, VLC or Internet Explorer (with the right plug in), allowing you to listen to the sample stream from the London site. Note, that if the wind is not blowing, you won’t hear anything, but there is a station ID announcement every 30 minutes, at the top and middle of the hour.

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Bournemouth wind sensor goes online…

Posted on 22 May 2011 by Tom

Quick and dirty wind sensor

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Chime Ahoy

Posted on 19 May 2011 by Tom

Reed Switch Demo from Davis on Vimeo.

The solenoids are ringing the chimes, yay!

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Updates

Posted on 15 May 2011 by Tom

Latest updates …


Mounting the solenoids so they can strike the chimes…

Building the electronics to interface the sensor data and solenoid control with the arduino.

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Reed Switch try

Posted on 28 April 2011 by Tom

Reed Switch Demo from Davis on Vimeo.

My chimes have arrived and this is my first attempt at using some reed switch sensors to trigger the OSC messages. (At the moment they are being used to directly drive a solenoid.) It’s a bit fiddly and inconsistent – but that’s probably what we want :)

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