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Week 1

Radio wave basics document If you look at the diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum above, you will notice that radio waves have the longest wavelengths of the spectrum. To give you an idea of how long radio waves can be AM radio waves can be longer than a football field, while FM radio waves are short in comparison – only about 3 meters long!

HERE

Workshop

On the first workshop, I pair up with Sara to try to make an FM Transmitter using a breadboard.

We follow this tutorial How to make FM transmitter.

We were able to plug everything right, but we couldn't find the right tune to listening to the transmitter.

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On the tutorial they gave us a formula to find out the right tune,

 L = [(d^2)(n^2)] / [18d + 40l]
 L – in uH (inductor)
 d – in inches (coil diameter)
 l – coil length in inches
 n – number of turns

But it didn't work as expected. The failed transmitter was exposed together with the other students work at the Radiation - Digital Craft exhibition.

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Radio Projects

Architecture of Radio by Richard Vijgen

" The Architecture of Radio, a new exhibition by Dutch designer Richard Vijgen that uses an augmented reality iPad app to visualize the network of radio waves that surrounds us, revealing the invisible traffic of smartphones, GPS units, Wi-Fi routers, cell towers, overhead satellites, and more."

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"As an information designer, I'm interested in visualizing things we cannot see. Most of the information we consume is 
 delivered to us over the air via radio waves . . . We are connected 24/7 through devices that communicate wirelessly 
 over Wi-Fi or cellular networks, yet contrary to the radio towers and transmission stations of the early days of radio, 
 the infrastructure that underpins our information society is barely visible. Wi-Fi routers are hidden behind bookshelves 
 and cell towers are mounted to existing buildings or disguised as trees."


Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine by Steve Mann

With the S.W.I.M. (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine) you can see otherwise invisible sound waves and radio waves, imprinted onto your retina, onto photographic media, or eyeglass/camera.

This is due to something I call Phenomenological or Phenomenal Augmented Reality, i.e. the AR (Augmented Reality) of physical phenomena


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You can find a tutorial of how to build one here


Tree Radio Installation at YSP

"This work addresses issues surrounding the rate that new digital technology often becomes out-of-date, as it uses 100 year old tried and tested wireless technology. I have been working at the intersection between art and technology and this project takes forward my current interests.

I wanted to make people think about trees and the root of all wireless technology: radio, and how simple and green it can be to use. Wireless, free and solar powered. The tree transmitter reveals the hidden facets of organic tree life using simple FM wireless technology."

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Video of the Project

You can read more about this project here
and more Radio Projects at Radio Arts

Week 2

A look at RTL-SDR

We use the RTL device to try to receive some interesting signals on our computer. I personally found this way of find signals very difficult and not very precise. Difficult in the way that you need to expend a lot of time and patience to go through the channels waiting to see some signal, you also need to count with a little of lucky, because sometimes you pass by a channel but it's not being used by the time you were on it, so you consider it has nothing there.

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Favorites on gqrx app (some of the channels where I found the following audios)

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Audios

Playlist on Soundcloud
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Mixed audio in photoshop

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https://soundcloud.com/caiovita/mix-photoshop-sdr/s-0zBlN

Experiment with Nina

Also on this week I did an experimentation with Nina, with the software MMSSTV, we use our computers to send some images from her computer to mine, through sound waves. I was thinking the same concept could be apply to radio. So we could have a transmitter sending the image converted to sound as wave signals, then anyone with a radio and a computer could listening to the station and receive the image on their screen.


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Week 3

Imaginary Radio

Prism

Think of the radio wave as the same way as light. Mirrors reflect radio waves

"Can I use a prism to affect radio waves? If yes, how can I use it in a creative way to experience radio waves?

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Text a about how diffraction and reflection affects radio waves
How do diffraction gratings affect radio waves

How does prism affect the behaviour of a Radar device (Radio Detection and Ranging)?

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Concept

My imaginary Radio uses prism to make an interference on the signal that it's capturing to create noise and translate to visuals.

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Workshop MICA

A day of workshop with students fro MICA. I was on the group Post-Radio Aesthetics and was assigned to build the Transmiters together with Kate Smith.

Post-Radio Aesthetics

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Q10 proposal

Using radio waves to create an image

My idea is to make a box that would work as a radio transmitter. I live just across a big church on a very busy street at Rotterdam. From my window I can project into the facade of the church. The box would be an installation at the street with some instructions of how to create the image. The signal would be similar to morse code, but with a color code. The person on the street can create an image that is 32 x 32 pixels. So they would have to send 32 color code trough the transmitter. The receiver for it would be a Arduino attached to the beamer that is being pointed at the church faced. The image will be create in real time by the person using the small box transmitter at the street. In the end they can choose to tweet their image, it would be twitter bot with the hashtag tweeting the images that were created through the morse code.

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Q10 Project

Concept Q10 (work with Nina)

How can you use radio to transmit something beyond sound?


Radio is often only seen as a medium to transmit music and information to people. The question that arose was how can we use radio to transmit something beyond sound? This collection investigates a broad range of aesthetic experiments with the broadcasting technology of radio. For us it is also an inquiry of intervention of this art form.This collection aims to rethink and reconceptualise the radio medium as an explorative archive.The goal of this collection is to create a temporary autonomous zone of art to communicate artistic compositions for interpretation. Proposing an alternate way to experiencing art through the radio.

KEYWORDS

- image distortion with radio waves - fm transmitter - MMSSTV software - collection - transmition of images - shapes&colors - media - mixing sound and images - blueprint - audacity






SSTV SOFTWARE

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SSTV, or Slow-Scan Television, is a picture transmission method, used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color. To send and receive messages, you need to connect your amateur radio rig to a computer, and then use software to send and decode images. Pictures typically take about one minute to be received. Most famously, SSTV was used to send back some of the first pictures of Space and the Moon. The most famous picture being this one from the Apollo 11 mission which shows Neil Armstrong descending a ladder to become the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon.



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STEP 1 Building the FM transmitter

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Testing dinstance-timing-volume using MMSSTV software

After many tests we decided that Scottie Modes: 1, 2 & DX was the best mode to use to decode the images in terms of speed and clarity.

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scotie dx - testing patterns using two laptops

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TESTING photography

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audacity

combination of 2 images

First, we transmitted separately the two images and then we mixed the sound using audacity of each image to create a new one.


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colors

We did this experiment to extract the SSTV sound from each color of the color wheel (primary and secondary only). After having the pure sound of each color, we mixed it with Audacity (sound mixing software) to see if we could create new images compositions through the color's sounds. Then we broadcast this new mixes to get the new image on the SSTV software. The results were not very exciting visually because the software makes one sound for a line, so the only kind of composition possible was one line each color.


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Mixed test:

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Test with ECHO Effect applied to to sound through Audacity


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Effects applied on the SSTV Audio via Audacity

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TESTING App Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder

We use the app to act as the receiver of some test images using both our mobiles at the same time.

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Personal development and artwork

With all the knowledge and findings we extend our collection by creating artwork using the same technique. CreatING a temporary autonomous zone of art to communicate our own artistic compositions for interpretation. Proposing an alternate way to experiencing art through the radio.


Nina ARTWORK


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