i’ve been working from home today. the emphasis has been on establishing the osc control between the main isadora programme and the arduino driving the neopixels (individually addressed rgb leds ).
in the finished work the neopixels will communicate the relationship between the participants movements to each other.
i’ve worked with the neopixels and osc before at a much lower level. in this re-imagining of the snee snaw i’m pushing into realms of relational maths not investigated by myself before.
i’m at proof of concept stage with it.
the figment festival want the snee snaw to be apart of it and trying to make sure that the principles of the new components are in the majority understood before officially committing to submitting the idea.
cautious maybe.
on monday i was asked how my day was. i replied “frustrating”. today has been similar with me experiencing again the transition from working to not working with the ensuing head scratching and working out how to make it work again.
it is a test of resilience and commitment to keep going when there appears to be nothing wrong yet the thing still doesn’t behave as i’d expect.
experience tells me in these situations of unexpected behaviour to concentrate on finding a way around the problem as often the problem is such that i don;t know where to begin to actually understand it. i’d rather get it working with a workaround than picking at it for an unknown amount of time to get to why it stopped working.
i might find that tomorrow the thing actually works again anyway.
