Beginner need help with max (using a light sensor with music as outcome)
Hello everyone,
I'm new here, and for a study project I have to use MAX for an interactive protoype I'm making. The idea is that you have different light sensors, every different sensor has a different sound as outcome. If there is no light there should be no sound and if there is more light the sound should be getting on and louder with the brightness (or the opposite arround, I haven't decided yet). Since I have no experience with MAX, I search a lot for starter tutorials to get to know the basics and how I can make this, but till now no succes. Can someone here give me some tips?
My solution would be to use an Arduino for that. ( www.arduino.cc ) You can hook this up to your computer/laptop and your sensors will be wired to the Arduino. This way you can send or receive values from/to sensors motors or.... well everything :)
You can use this object in Max to receive the values from the the sensors ( maxuino.org )
Most handy, cheap, and easy to use light sensor is a USB camera. Check it.grab object, learn how to use matrices - it's piece of cake ;-)