Posts filed under “Projects”
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 […]
Fisting
Sorry, I don’t know who took the picture above, but I love it. This is the story of the much anticipated, hyper publicized and brutally witnessed demise of team Back Off slash Golden Fist slash Golden Chariot slash Future Yacht or something. Our team: Noah Waxman, Michael Rosen, Mindy Tchieu, Bobby Genalo, Scott Wayne Indiana, […]
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 […]
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 […]