Semaj

Hello everyone, this is my first post on this site. I have to say; the thing that brought me to this site is my own electrical incompetence, I would be INCREDIBLY grateful if ANYONE could offer ANY help! I cannot stress that enough. Basically, I am a 3rd year student studying Music Technology & Innovation. I am studying a module that requires us to make interactive music. I chose to get a racing bike and rig up some variable resistors and a dynamo to it. The variable resistors are to be connected to 3 brake handles (it has 4 as it is a racing bike, but I want to keep one for proper brake use), and on blocks either side of the front tyre. They will be used to detect whether the person on the bike is pulling the brake or steering, and how much they are doing so. I would like to also connect a dynamo to the back wheel to detect the speed the bike is being ridden. Why? Well, if I can gather this data I can then use it to control musical parameters. I.e., speed of peddling = tempo of music, etc. I would also like to be able to detect multiple things at once, i.e., front brake 1 in combination with turning left and peddling at x mph. The result will (hopefully) be that an individual can get on the bike (which will be static as I will raise the back wheel) and can cycle a bike through a musical space, controlling the music by their cycling actions. I have absolutely no idea how I should go about the electronics for this. I don't know what kind of components to use, or how to wire it. To further confuse issues, I need to get the output voltages into a computer, meaning I need ADC's (analogue to digital converters) and some way of feeding it into the PC (which will then handle the music side of things in a program called Max/MSP). I believe I can use an Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc/) card to get the voltages into the PC, but I think it has to receive voltages of up to 5V. It would be good if I could power the bike of a 9V battery. I don't know if that is possible, and it doesn't really matter. Thank you for reading this, if you have ANY suggestions I’d be eternally grateful. I need this project to work as it is part of my final degree work...it means a lot to me! If you are confused and think you could help if you were given some more info then please, let me know and I will be happy to tell you more. THANK YOU!