Posts Tagged ‘ circuit ’

C3 Pilot Program

Wow, I have not posted in WAY too long. I have done so much, and not documented it on here at all -- but that will change! I'll be putting stuff up more and more as i get it looking good. To start, here's a video of the DIY activity that I developed as part of the Collect, Construct, Change (C3) curriculum at the New York Hall of Science! [ READ MORE ]

Robot Bunny // Desecrated and Celebrated

On Friday, we were told to bring in any plush toy that had interesting innards that we would want to understand. Naturally, I picked out a stuffed bunny that has a switch on his foot which triggers a song to play, and two motors to start up- one in the body, one for the ears. [ READ MORE ]

Spatialized Umbrella v01

This is my first prototype of the Spatialized Umbrella. The Spatialized Umbrella project offers an entirely new dimension to walking in the rain. Using light and sound spatialization this umbrella creates an immersive, mobile, and highly personal multi‐sensory environment.  Range sensing technology helps the Spatialized Umbrella react to your movement through a space. 5 speakers and LEDs [ READ MORE ]

monome 40h kit

today, i assembled my monome 40h kit! it's essentially the same as a 64, but comes in kit form - 2 PCBs and all the pieces that need to go on it - ATmega chip, shift registers, FTDI serial to USB, button pads, etc. The only thing it doesn't come with is LEDs. These you must find on your own. I ordered these from LEDShoppe, and so far i'm not extremely impressed with their consistency (brightness) from bulb to bulb. However, the color is beautiful (violet).....

LOTS OF PICTURES AND WORDS TOO

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Breadboarding an Arduino (ATMega168)

I recently found a FANTASTIC tutorial on how to breadboard the ATMega168 chip. I can't even begin to list out how many good reasons there are to do this. However, I will attempt: 1. cost. sparkfun sells ATMega168's with the arduino bootloader for $4.95 (versus $35 for a full arduino) 2. size. now, instead of needing space for that entire bulky arduino board, you can make your project as small as you want, well assuming you can fit this chip in (which is very small on it's own i'd like to add.) 3. pin access. now, you have unlimited ground and power pins, something that you previously NEEDED A BREADBOARD TO DO ANYWAY. 4. reproducability. now, if you want to make several copies of one prototype, this is an actually viable process you can follow, whereas previously you may have thought "oh, i guess i'll need to port this to PIC or BASICStamp to be cost/size/design effective". nope. not anymore. 5. IT'S JUST A GREAT EFFING IDEA, YOU FOOL. the tutorial (of course) is from the ITP site. man, ITP, you are great. thanks[ READ MORE ]

LED time piece • v02

second iteration of the expression of time through LEDs and an arduino project. i built an enclosure for the LEDs, complete with outside access to both power and USB inlets for the arduino mounted inside. MORE IMAGES, WORDS, AND VIDEO ............[ READ MORE ]

soldering workshop

This weekend, Joel Murphy, my physical computing teacher, held a soldering workshop at the 10 floor DT lab at school. We built 555 timer circuits, able to control up to 220volt anythings (lights, motors, etc.) READ MORE / LOTS OF PICTURES...[ READ MORE ]