Posts Tagged ‘ PCOMP ’

Serial conenction

Hooked up the arduino to the mac via USB and using Processing to show a visual reference to the connection which I’m manipulating via the potentiometer[ 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 ]

Talk to Me @ MOMA

The “Talk to Me” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is appropriate for the timing of the show and the scope that it shows. The show in my opinion basically conveys, everything is interactive. Even though everything is interactive, there are varying degrees of interactivity. Some installations required you to actually [ READ MORE ]

Blink that light

We don’t give it much thought when we turn on a light bulb. For us it’s just a flick of the switch and that’s it! So it shouldn’t be too much trouble. Or could it? I picked up the ITP PCOMP kit at the NYU Computer Store for around $93 including taxes. Inside it’s a [ READ MORE ]

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