Rope and Sound Interactive Tensegrity Sculpture

Step 13: Control box

The control box is disguised as a spool of rope, haha!  Inside it includes:

• mini-size Windows XP computer and 15" LCD monitor
• 64-channel Data Acquisition (DAQ) card - we used a Measurement Computing PCI-slot card.  It has 64 analog inputs and about 1M samples/second.
• Wiring and electrical interface between the sensing ropes and the DAQ card.
• Power distribution to the computer, monitor and speaker

There are 36 blue sensing ropes total.  Each has a wire going to a separate sense channel on the DAQ card.