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small work for robot and insects The robotic element of the installation is a custom designed and built polycarbonate and aluminium hexapod with the capacity to express itself using movement, lights and sound. It has an initial library of 18 base motions, 7 base light sequences and 32 base sounds which can be considered as 'phonemes', a starting point from which can be extracted any sequence or combination to construct a complex and evolving vocabulary. The incoming sound from the crickets is analysed using fft processes in max/msp and the resulting numerical data is passed to the neural network. Once the neural network has done its processing it passes back the numerical representation of the ‘sentence’ to max/msp which relays it via serial to the robot. The robot carries an onboard microprocessor (OOPic) loaded with a programme to control its functions, which are triggered by the data coming from the neural network. exhibition
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