Research Topic: Table Talk

Background:

The Table Talk project is another idea of experimental how Arduino works and give a response toward human voice. The idea is to take something invisible and make it visible, the human voice. I have chosen to work with speech, one of the key elements in our social interaction. I see our prototype as a cultural piece and not as a problem solving gadget. I want our technology to be secondary, or on the periphery to the bigger picture, giving the participants a visually exiting table. But if you sit at the table for a longer time you will hopefully understand how the table works and may have some fun. You might forget the meal in front of you because you enjoying the outcomes of this project so much.

The process of transduction, or the conversion of one form of energy into another, enables human input to be turned to another form such as motion, animation, sound etc. It is used in a variety of applications, such art, scientific experiments, and product design.

The Arduino consists of three separate tools: The microcontroller, the language and compiler which create codes for the microcontroller, and a open source programming environment built in Java. Arduino’s goal is to ‘simplify the process of creating interactive applications by simplifying the programming language used to create instructions and by providing a powerful yet basic controller that can easily be used for many common programming tasks while still being robust enough to support more complex projects’.

The potential of the controller is enormous, enabling designers to create interactive environment that uses all kinds of sensors , robotics toys or autonomous programs that communicate with one another.

Problem Identification:

Talking about problems on this project, it will majorly taking part on technical part.

· How to get Arduino recognize human voice.

· How to get LED collaborate with Arduino.

Aim and Objectives:

- To present a technology for people to enjoy their daily life even they at table.

- To make people realize actually he/she is talkative person.

- To realizing people, what mood their facing that time.

- To prove that fun can change people's behaviors.

-To explore Physical and Human Characteristics.

Motivation:

To experimental how arduino works with human voice and to figure out, how many talkative person surrounding us.

Ideation and Concept:

‘Table Talk’ is an interactive art about how a person realize that he/she is talkative person and what mood that person having. The arduino will help to recognize human voice and will give a response to LED for give a feedback with show up the first color. When the second people talk, second color will appear as the ardiuno detect another human voice. If both of them are talking, both color will mixing around and will changing follow voice’s tone. For example angry mood, the LED will change to red color and so on.

Some book that I need to refer on:

Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks

If you’re interested in using electronics and programming to create rich interactive experiences with your artwork, designs, or prototypes, Programming Interactivity is the place to start. You’ll explore common themes in interactive art and design, like 2D and 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction, computer vision, circuit bending, geo-location and more. This book explains programming and electrical engineering basics, and introduces three freely available tools created specifically for artists and designers.

Getting Started with Arduino

Getting Started with Arduino, authored by Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi, offers a brief, fun, and lucid overview of Arduino that will appeal to lots of people who’ve been wanting to get into physical computing and want a way in. This handy little guide should be just the ticket. To work with the introductory examples in this book, all you need is a USB Arduino, USB A-B cable, and an LED.

Getting Started in Electronics

Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, takes you on a tour of analog and digital components, explains how they work, and shows you how they are combines for various applications. Includes circuit assembly tips and 100 electronic circuits and projects you can build and test.

The VRBot module is designed to easily add versatile voice command functionality to your project. This module provides voice recognition functions for built-in Speaker Independent (SI) commands and up to 32 user-defined commands (Speaker Dependent (SD) trigger or commands, Voice passwords (SV)).

A simple and robust serial protocol (9600 8-N-1 default) can be used to access these functions from the user's microcontroller boards. The VRBot can be powered by anywhere between 3.3 and 5.5V, and typically consumes 12mA of current in operation.