Posts Tagged ‘ solder ’

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).....

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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 ]