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motorNet – proof of concept

quick video of a potentiometer controlling a servo motor over the interwebs. arduino -> processing -> PHP [serverside] -> .txt file [serverside] and all the way back on the other computer. i'll put up code when it's all ready to go. as it is, this is ready to go both ways, but for clarity i just filmed it going one way. these two computers could be thousands of miles apart, just need to be online. [ READ MORE ]

5-volt USB Breakout board

I actually made this back in February (you can see the date etched next to my initials on the board), and never got around to posting about it. It's a super simple breakout footprint for a USB mini type-B port. I wanted to make a really simple way to power my breadboard, and since my computer is usually on my work table, this seemed like a great idea. I made about 60 of these tiny boards which measure about 2cm x 3cm and hope to sell them as a really cheap, tiny kit one day.

Other than the board itself, the only components necessary are a USB mini type-B port, a 22uF SMT capacitor, and two header pins, which can plug directly into the power rails of your breadboard. My friend Jen asked me to help her put together a glowing LED circuit inside some ceramic pottery, and part of the concept was that the organic piece would need to plugged into to your computer to 'live'. Here are some images of the Arduino Pro Mini powered by my breakout board.

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Heartbeat Game of Life Hoodie @ NYC Resistor!

I am honored to have been invited to exhibit my Hoodie at an Arduino restrospective show happening at NYC Resistor this Saturday. Check out event info here: http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/03/21/art-design-and-the-arduino-a-lineage/

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augmented facemask

This was a project I made in June 2009 in Beijing, China. The facemask had green, yellow, and red LEDs that would indicate safe, medium, and dangerous levels of proximity. The project was inspired by the crowded streets of Beijing, and how physical walking down the street could be. The lights would color your face depending on how close something or someone might be to you, emphasizing personal space and public interaction. facemask1[ READ MORE ]

EKG-controlled Game of Life Hoodie

First Wear! The concept is a wearable version of Conway's Game of Life, that is controlled by the current state of your life. Essentially, a wearable extension of your heart, externalized in the form of Conway's Life. A custom circuit includes an infrared EKG monitor that resets the Game each time a heartbeat is detected. Heartbeat data is analyzed by a hackduino which resets an ATMega48 chip, part of Adafruit's kit controlling Life, which is embedded in the chest of a hoodie. Conductive thread is used to connect the 16 LED matrix to the circuit board which is kept in a pocket towards the bottom of the hoodie. [ READ MORE ]

instructable: prototyping a PCB with a laser cutter

my first instructable was received warmly and got featured on instructables.com! Custom PCB Prototyping using a Laser Cutter - More DIY How To Projects[ READ MORE ]

[pluto-festival] :: festival images

I have started to (FINALLY) upload images from the pluto festival where I exhibited my spatialized umbrella project, in Opwijk, Belgium October 1 -4, 2009. more

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[thesis prototyping] :: processing to PHP, attempt one

ok nerdzors, look out. Ira told me about a project that she made that took an analog input from processing and posted it to php (and then possibly a database, not sure). i wanted to try it out for myself, so i did some searching, and of course the processing guru Daniel Shiffman had a nice tutorial on at least getting to a php script. I ended up creating a world-wide collaborative drawing tool... read more

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[pluto-festival] :: new friends

I returned from Belgium about 12 hours ago, but I still haven't gotten a chance to sleep for more than 4 hours since about 3 days ago. It has been an amazing adventure, and definitely an experience that I want to repeat, as soon as possible, again and again. I was invited to exhibit at the Pluto Festival in Opwijk, Belgium about 2 months ago, by Pieter Coussement who saw my spatialized Umbrella project on hack a day. more more more.

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SOBEaR v02 :: the responsible robot bartender

UPDATE: featured on GIZMODO,ENGADGET and MAKE! Finally, my finalized prototype of SOBEaR, the responsible robot bartender. I've added a glass coaster with a glowing status light to tell you that he is on, as well as a sewn-on patch to show you where the 'go' button is. When you press the "breathe + pour" button on his right foot, the status light goes solid, and the user breathes into SOBEaR's face. view post for more!





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