Hacking Sensor Interfaces - MSc Sound Design

Further ReadingMassimo Banzi. Getting Started with Arduino. O’Reilly, 2008 (ISBN 0-596-15551-4)Very accessible and non-technical introduction to Arduino, with backgroundon tinkering, hacking toys and keyboards etc. Probably the best place tostart if you think you might want to go down this road. (It's actually quitepainless!)Bert Bongers. “Physical Interaction in the Electronic Arts: Interaction Theory andInterfacing Techniques for Real-Time Performance”. in Wanderley &Batterley (eds) Trends in Gestural Control in Music. (CDROM), IRCAM:Paris, 2000. (ISBN 2-84426-039).Also available at http://www.xs4all.nl/~bertbon/downloads/IRCAM.pdfNicolas Collins, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking.Routledge, 2006 (ISBN 0-415-97592-1)Great book with a wide range of material, from soldering to circuit bending,and featuring Nic’s famous recipes for CMOS logic based synthesisers. Alsoincludes a chapter on hacking joysticks. Recommended.Reed Ghazala, Circuit-Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments. John Wiley &Sons, 2005. (ISBN 0-764-58887-7)Usman Haque and Adam Somlai-Fischer. Low Tech Sensors and Actuators forArtists and Architects. Self-published, 2005.http://lowtech.propositions.org.uk/Excellent free eBook focusing on hacking toys for building interactiveenvironments.Robin Hollands. The Virtual Reality Homebrewer’s Handbook. John Wiley & Sons,1996. (ISBN 0-471-95871-9)Lots of DIY projects to build things like 3D joysticks and video projectorsusing low-cost components. Likely to be hard to locate by now.Tom Igoe, Making Things Talk. O'Reilly, 2007. (ISBN: 0-596-51051-9)More advanced book than "Physical Computing", covering RFID, bluetooth,networking and connecting to the Internet, Processing, Arduino and more.Dan O'Sullivan and Tom Igoe. Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling thePhysical World with Computers. Thomson, 2004. (ISBN 1-59200-346-X)Excellent book that's definitely worth buying if you're at all interested in thisarea. Very good basic introduction to electronics along with sensors andmicrocontrollers (although published before Arduino came out). Packed withexample circuits and code. Recommended.Eduardo Reck Miranda and Marcelo M. Wanderley New Digital MusicalInstruments: Control and Interaction Beyond the Keyboard. A-R Editions,Inc., 2006. (ISBN 0-89579-585-X)Includes chapters on gestural controllers, sensor interfaces and biosignals.Chris Hand 28/1/10 8/10