Exhibition Opening

We had our exhibition opening last night and it all went very well. Everything worked, Carnivore and the Flash client handled the large number of people and the live display looked really interesting. We got lots of positive feedback. Will be adding some pictures of the exhibition soon.

The card works

After much searching we got an internal wireless card and it works. It's a MRI-WL009. We are testing the signal and Flash in the Project. Also trying to figure out the logistics of setting up an instillation with 2 digital projectors, a DV camera, a computer and a Disco Ball. It also looks as if we will have to take down our piece every evening and put it up again every morning. At this stage though everything is working technically, so hopefully its just a matter of fine tuning.

Monitor / Promiscous Mode

We have finally tracked down an internal PC card which we are hoping to install and test tomorrow. Here is another blog with some information on this.Benjamin Schweizer

Final Week

Click here for our progress visually. This is our last full week, and we have discovered the difference between our cards and why some laptops can sniff/snort networks and some can't and now know that the pc we want to use cannot run in monitor mode rather than promiscous mode, which is the more common one. This is not a massive problem as if worst comes to worst we can use Audrey's PC. In the meantime we have been calling all the shops here looking for one...but again lack of knowledge and the relative novelty of wireless means the choice is very limited. We are going to test an Orinocco card tomorrow and also try to get our hands on a Broadcom internal PC card. We got a list on a forum of cards that do and dont work, as this is an American site most of the cards aren't available here and those that are dont seem to be available in the shops here.

We have been testing the sounds and are pleased with the results, many packets mean a nice overlay of the sounds.

We are going to the project tomorrow with crossed cable, dv and discoball to get a better idea of what can/will/may go wrong. We are also going to finalise the exact layout of our space.

A lot done, a lot more to do!

From the last list we managed to get the pc in college using carnivore, wireless and with flash installed.

This means that we can use a bigger pc to run the whole thing from the project.

Our second main achievement this week was to get digital video running into flash, which we think at this stage was an oversight on behalf of flash as it works on the latest version of flash player. The reason we want to use dv is to give us more freedom with a filter, so that the video feed compliments the bubbles, as in reality is too much of a contrast.

We also met with Linda, our supervisor and she was very happy with our progress and emphasised the need to show the traffic gridlock and speed of the network and to have another defining characteristic that would make people understand what was happening. Sublety is not a choice here, this needs to be big and bold for all to grasp.

Now

To do:
1. Get usb for pc in room
2. Install flash on pc
3. Go to project with two fixed aps and check los around building and how much cable needed
4. Audio
5. Exclude more html

Update on 'Run up to installation plan'

9 August*Access Point up and running in Project - au*The installation of the AP is still causing problems, and this is mostly due to lack of expertise in the area and conflicting advice from people we ask...this week it HAS to be up and running and that is that...

*Idea for music and how to make it happen - a* I (Anya) investigated using Max Msp for the music and having learned quite a bit I realised that if we only want each bubble's creation to cause a note with reverb, flash could do this...I would like to use a vibraphone/echoing high note to denote each type of packet/each colour bubble. However this adds to our worries about Flash having too much to cope with.

*Flash improved - j* Johanna has flash picking up more understandable words. We need to attack html code now.

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*Contact Linda re equipment - au* We are getting two projectors from Trinity and they will be projected on the top wall of the Project, so we don't need a back projector from Linda.
Filter/fx on straight video to make it more abstract - j
Work on music- have something ready by then - a
Motion detection sensors - au
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other ideas - go through blog - 3
projections
perfect visuals

Into the projects

Two major things have happened since -
1 - Indeed we do have the upstairs - to ourselves, which is great as our bubbles will remain free!
2 - We have been on a total rollercoaster concerning the ap and what we do and dont need...major confusion abounds about this new techology.