Work page for dissertation project

Overview

The dissertation, A Machine for Living In stages intelligent systems in domestic space to study the home as a site of intimate life. Designed to be inhabited, this project examines how technologies are altered through inhabitation. Upending the typical utilitarian concerns of the smart home with optimization and efficiency, I focus instead on the home as a nexus of personal history, desires, relationships, episodic narrative, and bodily praxis. I deploy technologies that purport to represent and analyze the self--speech recognition and synthesis, motion capture, and facial recognition, for example--and engage them with the messy conditions of domestic life. Living within the machine for a number of weeks, I produce a durable record of the home and its inhabitants: human, animal, machine. This material is restaged for viewers as a hybrid experience of recorded media and live interaction.

Process

design/build
inhabit
summarize

To Do

indoor positioning system
- people / inhabitant tracking
sensing doors / appliances / objects / actions
event logging
audio recording system
audio plan
video plan
robot / mechatronc plan
tracking plan
event logging (house data recorder)

Components

Black Box Recorder

airplane / vessel / ship analogy
telemetry
Flight Data Recorder (FDR)
Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)

Voice Assistant

voice operation
always listening in the different rooms

conventional

agonist / antagonist

lightswitch robots
door locks
other ways to provide / deny access

gleeker

lipstick robot

head stain wiper

garbage sensor

Technology

Spark Core with OSC

Audio

http://locusonus.org/w/?page=Locustream+LocusMic

Test throughput raspberry pi (mic to headphone):

arecord -f DAT | aplay -f DAT

Record and playback on Raspberry Pi:

arecord -f DAT -D plughw:0 | aplay -f DAT -D plughw:1

mics in each room

Preamp to Line Level

Electret_Preamp_TL071

picam

https://github.com/iizukanao/picam

Start picam

picam -w 1296 -h 972 --alsadev hw:1,0

touch hooks/start_record

touch hooks/stop_record

time lapse from FLIR

ffmpeg -framerate 5 -f image2 -i %04d.jpg -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p time-lapse.mp4

Video playback service on raspbian jessie

Create a service file in

/etc/systemd/system

flir.service:

[Unit]
Description=Plays FLIR footage on loop
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS video omxplayer -b --loop --win 0,0,1280,1024 /home/pi/housemachine/data/flir/bed4.mp4

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

enable:

sudo systemctl enable flir.service

start:

sudo systemctl start flir.service

connect:

sudo screen -r video

Housemachine

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