Posts Tagged ‘ physical computing ’

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 ]

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 ]

[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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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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SOBEaR v01

I have finished my first draft of SOBEaR, the robot bartender. SOBEaR is a robot friend for anyone who does not know their own limits, or has problems controlling themselves. SOBEaR has an alcohol sensor mounted under his chin, so that the user presses a button inside his right foot, breathes into SOBEaR's face, and then watches their alcohol consumption level displayed by the color LED column in SOBEaRs chest. Following their sobriety test, SOBEaR then immediately pours a drink, a ratio of alcohol and mixer (OJ, cranberry, tonic, cola, etc), appropriate for the user at this time. click on post for more photos and words!

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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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Sharp Infrared Range Finder sensors

Click on image to walk through a great lesson myself, kerstin, and cecilia put together about Sharp Infrared range finding sensors. there’s info in there about pin connections, the 3 types of sharp IRs, and code for mapping, smoothing, and calibrating the range finder data. HERE is the link to the page, if your resolution [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

Luminosphere • v0.5

Finally finished!!! Here it is in all it’s glory, luminosphere. You can check out my Arduino code HERE I also had to make a product sheet, the PDF file can be downloaded HERE.  There is also an image of it, in case you don’t want to download (always a hassle, i know). I am going to sell [ READ MORE ]