Hi,

I own a number of humanoid robots, and they have bluetooth interfaces. I have in my head the idea I can use Puredata to play music from my computer and at the same time send a signal to instruct the robot to perform a move/step.

Running Win7 I know Puredata doesn't have a working HID command, which is why I have learned how to connect Processing to Puredata via OSC.

I have successfully tested sending a packet of data from a Puredata patch, to a Processing sketch, to my bluetooth device and have confirmed the data has been received. That is the hardware all sorted, that means I can send signals from Puredata and it will be received by my robots no problem.

But I am a complete novice when it comes to Puredata, midi's and music.

I basically want to replicate how lights can be synchronized to music, but instead of lights being the output it will be my robots.

Do I need to invent the wheel, or is there a patch somewhere that already has signals connected to music which I can modify for my own music (i.e. mp3, wav file etc) and purposes?

I started two days ago, I've got this far, but I want to put together something for a display on September the 8th and I'm hoping I can fast track it by leveraging the collective talent on this forum.

Thanks in advance,
Michael

Hi again,

My PD learning curve is steep, but its progressing.

I was able to use Olaf Matthes' showcolors2 patch to confirm PD is working on my system.

I installed both Jack and ASIO4ALL on my Win7 machine, but I have an issue with audio input.

I don't appear to be able to get iTunes output to be PD input. I have had no luck with Jack, but I did have some partial success with ASIO4ALL.

With ASIO4ALL using the settings shown in the PDF attached to this post, I was able to get audio from my browser (i.e. Youtube) to work with the showcolors2 patch very nicely.

But if I start iTunes, no audio. If I change the ASIO4ALL settings I lose the Youtube sound but do not gain the iTunes sound in compensation.

Can anyone walk me through what I need to do to get iTunes to play nice with Puredata on a windows machine?

Note: I also turned off both "Exclusive Mode" check boxes on my speakers.

Regards
Michael Gruber

Hi,

Back again, I worked out my issues with iTunes and Puredata. I now play music in iTunes, and via ASIO4ALL have that feed into Puredata.

The problem was that I had too many things enabled in ASIO4ALL. I've attached an image that shows my ASIO4ALL settings.

FYI, the versions I'm using;

• Windows 7
• Puredata 0.42.5 extended
• iTunes 10
• ASIO4ALL v2.10

I didn't need to use Jack for this.

Hope that helps some people.

Regards
Michael

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/ASIO4ALL_settings.jpg

Hey Michael,

I have no idea what you're up to, but it's great that you're coming back to show how you've solved your issues. I'm sure it'll be helpful for others in the future.

Cheers,
Joe

Hi,

Most dancing robots you see on YouTube are a preprogrammed sequence of steps and the timing of the moves is luck or a good trigger.

I been wanting to have a system which is more autonomous, and when I came across PureData I thought it just may be possible.

So far I can play iTunes and use BONK and FIDDLE to generate numbers which I can send via OSC to Processor, which can pass it onto my bluetooth receiver which is on the robot.

But as I have not yet fine tuned Puredata the numbers (data) is not yet useful. I really need someone who may be interested in helping me with a patch that could through out a datastream which (a) isn't to fast (b) simple.

I saw this paper using Puredata with a virtual avatar http://www.acmp.asia/acmp2011papers/pdf/0401weerasinghe.pdf

These are the robots I have access to which have bluetooth receivers;

http://roboteshop.com/robot-catalogue/innovati/robots/16dof-robotinno.html
http://www.roboteshop.com/robot-catalogue/kondo/robots/khr-2hv-rcb3hv.html
http://www.roboteshop.com/robot-catalogue/minirobot/robots/metal-fighter.html
http://www.roboteshop.com/robot-catalogue/vstone/robots/nano-pre-built.html

Regards
Michael