Tide Tone

Inspiration

The presence of water in Red Hook and how to be more in tune with its changing nature

What it does

Reads the changes in height and movement of the water and translates it to a tone to create a constantly changing soundscape

How we built it

Using an ultrasonic sensor with an Arduino micro to get the readings, node server code written in jquery, javascript

Challenges we ran into

How to get the kinds of readings we want, some coding issues with p5

Accomplishments that we're proud of

getting sensory data to correspond with our custom sound design

What we learned

Lots

What's next for Tide Tone

Actually installing? Networked speaker system across the neighborhood that disperses the tones throughout

Built With

• arduino
• jquery
• node.js
• p5