Ok, I realized that reading Marcel Proust is unfortunately not enough to pass the egzams at TVU. It suddenly became clear that I need to browse internet in order to find something more contemporary. Except bringing the dusty Arduino board back to life and reinstalling all software from last year, I bought new edition of Maplin's magazine. I actually thought that I will have ideas just by flicking through the magazine:-) Well, apparently, things don't work this way(at least not in my case). Assuming that I inherited my visual thinking after my parents and that people are divided into those who have a visual memory and those who rather remember things just by listening, I decided to look for inspiration watching videos on YouTube. Easy, all you do is tap 'Arduino'. No need of reading books, presto, we live in digital age. The first movie that pops up is the 'Intro to the Arduino' on which two geeks in cool T-shirts are trying to show how cool Arduino can be. Probably you have seen that one so I won't leave a link to it. Then, I found a video of a guy who created sthg called 'Arduino Wireless POV', trully amazing, badass geek style:-) 

This is not what I am looking for anyway. I am interested in using Parallax Ping as an input and Visual effects as output. The process will involve Arduino software and MaxMSP as code holding software. Preferably, I will be using Winamp AVS effects projected on the screen. The Parallax Ping is a relatively small device that can be, for instane, to a finger. And so, if I use 5 Pings attached to each of the fingers, I can create different actions for each of the fingers. Here you can find an Arduino code that can be the starting point of this project:

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/UltrasonicSensor