All components have been acquired and assembled. The trampoline switch interface works (yay!)…

…but the camera control is not working out as hoped.

This has to do with the limitations of the camera, however, and not with the patch. The intervals between ‘record’ and ‘recpause’ when jumping on the trampoline are too short to allow adequate time. Thinking this to be primarily due to the mechanical lag of the tape mechanism (with its pre- and post- roll), I changed to the memory card. But the controls are different and don’t work with the jit.avc object’s ‘record’ and ‘recpause’ functions.

I wondered about just getting mid-air still images, but again this requires a different set of controls and I don’t know what these might be. Rich, Steve’s RA, said he thought he could get something working in Processing and agreed to work on that. We’ll see how that goes…

I downloaded MaxMSP Runtime 4.6 onto my laptop at home and ran the Max patches we played with in class (QTplayback and linear_random) and while everything opens up, the patches do not work for lack of required Jitter objects. I downloaded Jitter 1.6 but it would not install without MaxMSP. :^(

However, I have a bunch of short video clips of kitten feeding to plug into the patch we’ll be working with. We were asked to make four. I made seven, though I could easily choose four that would work if the limit is absolute.