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Adafruit Circuit Playground reacting to music (updated with simulator)

This post looks at using the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express to react to music. I used Adafruit MakeCode ( https://makecode.adafruit.com/ ) to experiment with it.  The code is simple and shown below and using the acceleration in the x, y and z axis to selected values for RGB on the neopixels - the circuit is placed on a speaker and the vibrations cause the changes in the pixel RGB value. The 10 pixels are lit up in sequence, but it is so quick it is hard to see a difference between the pixels. The video below shows it action with music available from the YouTube audio library  “Eternal Structures” by Asher Fulero. All opinions in this blog are the Author's and should not in any way be seen as reflecting the views of any organisation the Author has any association with. Twitter @scottturneruon
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WebVR 5 Playtime: Augmented Reality to display Videos

In previous posts ( post 1 , post 2 ) I have raved over the brilliant combination of Mozilla's AFrame and Jerome Etienne's fantastic AR code - guess what this post is no different in that respect.  Here is the problem I was interested in - having a set of markers that when viewed, a different video plays for each marker.  Glitch is a great editor for this (for example  https://glitch.com/~ambitious-hub ) easy to use and it can stored assets (in this case a video). Add the assets by clicking on the asset folder and then use the add asset button, upload the file. You will need the URL for the asset this is what is included as a source in the HTML files; you get this by clicking on the asset and then copying the URL. So some initial code using Aframe and aframe-ar.js is shown below. This is set-up to display a video when the HIRO marker is shown to the camera. <!DOCTYPE html> <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.6.0/aframe.min.js"></scr...
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It listens to me - Anki's Vector Robot

The Anki Cozmo is great fun to play with (loads of games to get it to do) and nice to program through the codelab ( https://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.com/2017/06/program-cozmo.html ) and is just so cute you want to play with it. But now Anki has released Vector ( https://developer.anki.com/blog/news/hey-vector/ ) with it's enhanced camera and built-in microphones, essentially better sensors; but the main feature (so far) has to the speech recognition. All request start with "Hey Vector", pause until the lights go blue; followed by commands for example - "my name is" which records your name and then learns your face. - "play blackjack" to not surprisingly plays games of blackjack with you. There are a load of commands, including to get the time, the temperature, etc. I am partial, to getting a fist bump from it. I have only just started exploring it (ok playing) there are loads of features I have yet to play with - just got to le...
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