Posts filed under “Physical Computing”
Following Thingy
The idea was to bring something ordinary to life by giving it a following behavior. It turned out that the arduino with wheels and all of the wiring was already brought to life. As soon as it began to move toward the magnet it was undeniably painfully cute. Everybody said “Aaaaw.” [wpvideo VvGjaamK] We used […]
Final Project Idea
Mira and I talked about exploring how simple behaviors (movements) can give an object personality. At first I was thinking about my fantasy device, a bag that follows you around, and how it would inevitably become like a child or pet and would need some simple code of behavior to understand how to follow somebody […]
Transistor Lab
I used a 5V regulator to regulate the 9V going into the motor, and then I thought that I could power the arduino with that same 5V, and it worked! I was able to unplug it from the computer. But doesn’t this defeat the purpose of using an external (to arduino) power supply? Was the […]
Media Controller 3
To get back to the call and response issue, I want to resolve it for future reference, and I think I may have found the issue: a misplaced ‘}’. Here is the arduino code: int analogOne = 0; // analog input int analogTwo = 1; int analogThree = 2; int analogFour=3; int analogFive=4; int analogSix=5; […]
Media Controller
The code finally worked at 1 am. I had tried several different ways of merging the movie manipulation code with the call and response method that was working with simple color manipulation with all of the sensors, but something was going wrong. I will try again, but the standard serial communication worked fine after a […]
Media Controller tech
We decided to make a squishy soft video/audio controller. I began by making the sensors we were interested in using talk to the computer. We had ordered some sensors we wanted to play with: flex sensors, a larger force sensing resistor, accelerometers, light sensors, and a proximity sensor. I wired the sensors so that we […]
“Visual Intelligence” – Donald D. Hoffman
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/readings/Visual_intelligence.pdf Hoffman argues that we create everything we see, hear, feel, smell, taste, etc. He says the we easily believe this in the case of seeing, because of the extensive research done on varying visual perception, but that we consider touch to have a more concrete connection to a common reality. He talks about […]
Serial Communication 2
I got a very long (2 ft i think) force sensing resistor for our media controller, and I’m using it for this lab. I really love it. Its so sensitive and conducts evenly throughout its length. The next part includes two flex sensors. With the addition of the switch, I tried to make it add […]
Interactive Device.
In the sense of “listening, thinking, responding”, the subway ticket machine processes a range of input and responds with options, followed by a final response of the card or the card refill. It says welcome, thank you, and good bye. Shortly after reading the Norman article I had to buy a new card, and despite […]
Serial Communication Lab
I have been so frustrated for so long about this issue that keeps resurfacing, especially in this lab. I first had this problem in the stupid pet trick, when I didn’t know anything about serial communication, I faked my way around it by altering the code, and now its back to haunt me. I think […]