Projects and posts relating to ITP’s Physical Computing class.
So today we fused the two classes and mixed out p5 programming with the arduino. After some flubs at first, we got it going. My partner Alejandro and I decided to go with simple photoresistors, and when as hand went of the sensor it would show a day or night scene. Needless to say we …
Let me start this blog on a moment of failure. Five, maybe closer to seven hours of circuit building, coding, debugging all to end in a big failure. Couldn’t seem to get my Uno to sing at the push of a button but I got it play the song by just plugging in the piezo …
Okay so the first labs were pretty easy (once I figured out my placement–the way the switches are are a bit confusing !) Video: Potentiometer Lab: Setup was relatively painless, and my issue was the basic coding fare (forgetting semicolons and whatnot). Servo Lab: So here is where I had the trouble. The setup …
The device I had chosen was the library catalog at my local library. Long since we are from the rolodex of cards, I had spent my childhood among those old blocky monitors looking for what I needed. Some things still have yet to change– we still have to physically write the call numbers we want …
Before I begin, I will share I thought I had a busted breadboard. Friday I had a setup and I used a 9-volt battery and my laptop and for some reason it wasn’t working. Turns out I just had bad layout in retrospect. (Thanks to Dror for testing my breadboard out for me because I …
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Don Norman’s entries covered the concept of design and how it difficult it truly is to make a design that balances out functionality and aesthetics– something covered in a different sense when I studied for my graphic design degree. I suppose design no matter where you go, follows some same rules and the like. Phones …
How would I define physical interaction? As we read, it has been described as this nebulous thing to define. But if I were to put my definition, it is a sort of feedback loop between two or more beings or machines or a mix thereof through any sort of physical motion, not just of the …
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