{"id":40741,"date":"2019-11-23T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40741"},"modified":"2019-11-23T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T15:23:06","slug":"pour-reception-an-arduino-based-radio-that-uses-glasses-of-water-as-an-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/pour-reception-an-arduino-based-radio-that-uses-glasses-of-water-as-an-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pour Reception&#8221;: An Arduino-based radio that uses glasses of water as an interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40742\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pour_reception_water_radio-yankodesign-02-e1574510161519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40742\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40742\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pour_reception_water_radio-yankodesign-02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image source: Yanko Design<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, David Korchin, who shares <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2019\/11\/21\/this-radio-from-an-alternate-universe-uses-glasses-of-water-as-its-remote-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a link to this article on Yanko Design<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re all used to turning a couple of knobs and pressing a few buttons to operate a radio, but have you ever played with glasses of water to change a radio channel? Probably not. Designers Tore Knudsen, Simone Okholm Hansen, and Victor Permild recently launched their art project \u2018Pour Reception\u2019. And it\u2019s beyond anything you can imagine. Pour Reception consists of two internal speakers, an AUX input, a handy guide and two glasses that must be placed on the body of the radio. And no the glasses aren\u2019t just to sip water from, though you could do that. The radio uses the two glasses filled with water as it\u2019s interface!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pour Reception - A playful radio\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/252575621?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;]Pour water into the glasses, and the stereo starts! Transfer some water from one glass to another and you can change channels. Touch the glasses, and you can fine-tune the radio\u2019s signal, eliminating distortion. Finally, pop a finger into the water to control the volume or to bring the radio to a halt!<\/p>\n<p>This might seem like a scenario from an alternate universe, but the tech behind it is pretty common. Objects emit micro amounts of electricity, and touch tends to disrupt this and convert it into a signal. By using Tact library by NANDstudio (an open-source Arduino shield that turns any object into a touch and proximity sensor), the designers converted the radio platform, glasses, and water into different layers of a capacitive interface, allowing them to conduct minute amounts of electricity and transforming them into sensors. Utilizing a Wekinator (an interactive machine learning tool), various gestures such as touching the glass or dipping a finger into the water were mapped into commands for controlling the radio. The end result; a radio with glasses of water functioning as a \u201cdigital material interface\u201d.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/2019\/11\/21\/this-radio-from-an-alternate-universe-uses-glasses-of-water-as-its-remote-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to see a photo gallery and read the full article at Yanko Design.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh now that&#8217;s a fun way to combine radio and art! Obviously, this isn&#8217;t an RF radio&#8211;it either grabs streaming content or (more likely) uses pre-recorded content on an internal storage device. Still, I think it&#8217;s a creative little project and an ideal way to play with Arduino Tact library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Korchin, who shares a link to this article on Yanko Design: We\u2019re all used to turning a couple of knobs and pressing a few buttons to operate a radio, but have you ever played with glasses of water to change a radio channel? Probably not. Designers Tore Knudsen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,26],"tags":[4266,2264,2263,8151,510,8152],"class_list":["post-40741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-radios","tag-arduino","tag-david-korchin","tag-david-korchin-kc2wnw","tag-pour-reception","tag-radio-art","tag-yanko-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aB7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/flea-market-find-david-restores-a-hammarlund-hr-10-solid-state-portable\/","url_meta":{"origin":40741,"position":0},"title":"Flea Market Find: David restores a Hammarlund HR-10 solid-state portable","author":"Thomas","date":"October 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Korchin, who writes: Stumbled on this rig at an estate sale and laid out a cool $5.00 for her. 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