Posts Tagged ‘ DanO ’

Pampanga Lantern Weekend update

I decided not to fly out for Thanksgiving and instead work on my Physical Computing final project. I initially started out Thanksgiving by going through the Muppet Show episodes and getting the Open CV code to work. My classmate Adria Navarro-Lopez suggested to use the OpenCV library instead of the Open Kinect to make things [ READ MORE ]

Pampanga lantern – Physical Computing Final

  Sooo my last idea didn’t exactly fly but that’s the way it is here. My classmates instead gave me better ideas to make this more interesting. One that resonated was suggested by Lisa Park that I should look at the work of installation artist Olafur Eliasson and his installation work in London called the [ READ MORE ]

Final Project for Physical Computing

Thinking of a final project is hard. Like I need ice cream to get through this hard. At first I wanted to make a robot hand being controlled by a glove. than I listed the parts I would need and that posed a significant technical problem in itself. I wanted the glove and the robot [ READ MORE ]

Graffiti in a can/ media controller

Inspired by “Picasso’s Drawing with Light” we wanted to make something similar but instead of taking pictures, we would be using live video. http://www.life.com/embed/index/gallery/id/24871/size/large/isHd/0 While Picasso used a slow shutter speed and a quick hand with a flashlight to create the images. We used arduino and processing to create our own “graffiti can”. Initially we [ READ MORE ]

Servo and Tone

I think I’ve just made my own Theremin Machine. Or at least something to annoy the neighbors[ READ MORE ]

Stupid Pet trick

As part of every student in physical computing is to complete the stupid pet trick and mine is the “belly monitor”. After some unusual ideas deliberated over in class, I’ve ended up with a belly monitor that monitors your eating limit. Since this varies from person to person, I’ve decided to proceed with a two [ READ MORE ]

Let’s play with electricity

This week doesn’t require any mad programming skills and just basic electrical know how. With the help of helping hands, this allows me to both hold the points together to get a reading on the multimeter and take a picture at the same time. Of course this one beeps. So does this one. Notice that [ READ MORE ]

Under pressure

Named after that song from Queen, now I have to program the arduino to recognize an analog input. Meaning, it’s not just as simply flipping a switch. This requires and entirely different mindset. Using a knobthingy commonly known as a “potentiometer”, it allows the light to switch on once you turn it past a certain [ READ MORE ]

Wind machine

There used to be a cable channel back home that was called the “Aquarium channel” which was basically a camera pointed at a very large aquarium and played classical music the whole day. Sometimes, there would be dead fish floating and other times it was being cleaned or something. Eventually they took it out and [ READ MORE ]

What are the sensors in my neighborhood?

This weekend while taking the subway I noticed a number of physical sensors that I didn’t notice before. This particular button is not common in New York well at least I haven’t seen much of it in Manhattan. But pressing this button will tell the traffic signal light that there is a pedestrian who wants [ READ MORE ]

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