Controlling moving light pan with Myo (joy and problems)

Armando

Dear collective wisdom,

I am trying to control a moving light with Myo through a max patch that transforms a dancer movement into light movement. When the dancer starts rotating th light does it too. Everything is fine but I have a problem that also happens with a infinite rotation potentiometer. When the dancer slowly turns Myo orientation values go from 0 to 127 (a full tour on himself) and the light does the same. But if the dancer wants to go on rotating in the same directions values go back to 0 and the light.... also comes back quickly to the initial position.

Any idea on how to solve this?

Thanks

DusX

you are mapping an up ramp, but no down ramp.

You need to map range X to the Up (0 to 127) and range Y to Down(127 to 0)

Setup so that X and Y ranges alternate at the thresholds.

dbini

@DusX - this problem has also been confusing me for a while now. with your advice, I think I can build a solution. Thanks Ryan.

John

dbini

Hi @DusX and @Armando:

I found a solution, using Ryan's ramping idea - this gives a particular outcome that is smooth, but half the time, the output doesn't correlate with the input.

is there a way of patching something so that an increasing input gives an increasing output, ignoring the jump back to zero, and a decreasing input gives a decreasing output, ignoring the jump back to 127? I can't get my head around it. ;)

John

jhoepffner

Armando,

I cannot understand exactly where is your problem? Can you give what is the Myo output and what do you need for numbers?

Jacques

jhoepffner

@Armando, @dbini @ DusX

I think I understand your problem. The problem is you have to increment the output with 100 when you pass 0 in positive way and decrease it by 100 when you pass 0 in negative way to avoid the gap, so you need to know the instant speed.

I made a quick (working) proposition, it would be much easier in Python :-) less in javascript because you cannot easily manage real time inside the script.

Here is the patch and the screen capture.

PS that's the reason because I use encoders instead of infinite potentiometer, you know instantly in which side you are rotating.

Hope that helps,

Jacques

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Armando

Thanks a lot folks. I think that Jacques has a solution but I don't have the light any more now. As soon as I have it again. What encoders are you referring too Jacques?

dbini

I've been working on how to solve this problem and have come up with something I think may be useful to share. The Macro in here converts OSC from the MYO into joystick control that outputs a constant signal if the MYO is moving, but nothing if it is still. I've included a counter to be able to convert this signal back into numerical data, if that is necessary. It gives a nice, organic ramping to the data and can cope with the data thresholds.

John

Armando

Hello @dbini

thanks for the hint. Is there a patch to understand well? Can't see it

Thanks

dbini

@Armando - Yes, yes, yes (i uploaded the patch when that feature of the new forum wasn't working)

here it is, let me know if it works for you,

all the best,

john

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