Use the Make Controller with Exemplar

Problem

You want to use the Make Controller with Exemplar.  The Exemplar group's goal is "to develop prototyping tools that allow designers to gain insight into the design space of sensor-based interactions more rapidly".  Exemplar is a tool that introduces new techniques for authoring sensor based interactions through programming by demonstration.

The Exemplar editing environment.

Solution

Go visit the Exemplar site and follow the step-by-step guides they have.

There are a few good spots to find information:

• The Exemplar project homepage
• The Protolab Wiki
• The Make Controller page in the Protolab wiki

Discussion

From the Exemplar site...

"The Exemplar GUI is organized according to a horizontal data flow metaphor : sensor data from the hardware interface arrives on the left hand side of the screen and, through manipulations, arrives transformed on the right hand side as discrete or continuous events.

Live data from all connected sensors is shown simultaneously in a small multiples configuration on the left, giving a one-glance overview of the current state of all sensors.

Designers can bring a sensor's data into focus in the large central canvas by clicking on its preview thumbnail. Interaction with the filtered signal in the central canvas is analogous to a waveform editor of audio recording software.

Between the thumbnail view of sensor input and the central canvas, Exemplar interposes a filter stack. Filters transform sensor data in real-time and Filter parameters are unique for each sensor. These filtered values can be sent to third party applications directly - or they can be turned into discrete events.

To the right of the central canvas, Exemplar shows a list of event definitions for the currently active sensor(s) Each event is given a unique color in the central canvas- these colors show regions that were marked by the designer as examples and regions determined by the system to match the demonstration."