project development studio – THE HYPERTEXT http://www.thehypertext.com Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:10:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.4 Sound Camera http://www.thehypertext.com/2015/09/14/sound-camera/ http://www.thehypertext.com/2015/09/14/sound-camera/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:06:42 +0000 http://www.thehypertext.com/?p=687 This week, I have been prototyping a script that chooses music based on photographs. Ideally, the end result will be a wearable camera / music player that selects tracks for you based on your environment.

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]]> I have been looking for ways to push the conceptual framework behind word.camera to another domain. This week, I have been prototyping a script that chooses music based on photographs. Ideally, the end result will be a wearable camera / music player that selects tracks for you based on your environment. Unfortunately, the domain sound.camera has been claimed, but I’m still planning to use the name “Sound Camera” for this project.

ipod shuffle - modified

My code:
iPython Notebook

The script I wrote gets concept words from the image via Clarifai, then searches song lyrics for those words on Genius, then finds the song on Spotify. Below are some images I put through the algorithm. You can click on each one to hear the song that resulted, though you will need to login to Spotify to do so.

 

putin

street

landscape

 

cat

 

 

The next step will be to get this code working on a Raspberry Pi inside one of the film camera bodies I just received via eBay.

]]> http://www.thehypertext.com/2015/09/14/sound-camera/feed/ 1 Author Cameras http://www.thehypertext.com/2015/09/09/author-cameras/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:58:10 +0000 http://www.thehypertext.com/?p=631 For my primary project in Project Development Studio with Stefani Bardin, I am planning to make 3-5 more physical word cameras.

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]]> For my primary project in Project Development Studio with Stefani Bardin, I am planning to make 3-5 more physical word cameras. These models will iterate on my prior physical word camera by printing relevant passages from specific authors, based on convolutional neural network analysis of captured images.

I have not yet chosen the authors I plan to embed in these cameras, or how I plan to present the extracted text. I also have tentative plans for a new iteration of the talking surveillance camera I developed last semester, but more on that will be provided in future posts.

This week, I spent some time on eBay finding a few broken medium- and large-format cameras to use as cases. Here’s what I bought (for $5 to $25 each):

$_57 (3)

$_57 (2)

$_57 (1)

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I am current waiting to receive them so that I can start planning the builds. Below is a list of the additional parts that will be required for each camera:

Raspberry Pi 2 ($40)
85.60mm x 56mm x 21mm (or roughly 3.37″ x 2.21″ x 0.83″)

Raspberry Pi Camera Board ($30)
25mm x 20mm x 9mm

Buck Converter ($10)
51 * 26.3 * 14 (L * W * H) (mm)

7.4V LiIon Battery Pack ($90)
22mm (0.9″) x 104mm (4.1″) x 107mm (4.2″)
OR two USB batteries ($40)

Thermal Printer ($25 from China or $50 from U.S.)
~4 1/8″ (105mm) x 2 1/4″ (58mm) for rectangular hole
~58mm deep

On/Off Switch ($1)
18.60mm x 12.40mm rectangular hole
13.9mm deep

LED Button ($5)
Shutter button, user will hold for 3 seconds to turn off Raspberry Pi
16mm round hole
~1.5″ deep

1/4-size permaproto board ($3)

1/4″ Acrylic ($12) or Broken Medium Format TLR ($30-69)

Jumper Wires ($2)

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