I’m excited for project two, wearable computing. I want to make a wearable MIDI trigger drum-set that uses piezo transducers to sense force. It will be exciting.
-
Categories
-
Archives
-
RSS Feeds
Blink Project: Finished
Finished Project: Creative Blinker
The LED responds to the photosenor. Passing the finger by the sensor causes the LED to change in brightness.
LED Blink Project from ryan scott davis on Vimeo.
Blink Project: Brighter LED
I got a Brighter LED to be used has a reference point. Now I just need some way to diffuse the light so the feedback is more visible. For that I am going to place a cardboard dowel around the LED to keep that really bright blue LED out of it’s visible spectrum, making it more usable.
Blink Project: Early Stage
In early stage of blink project. Working on getting an LED to respond to motion using a photo sensor. To combat the issue of the photo sensor sensing ambient light, or light not bright enough, I added an LED adjacent to the sensor. Unfortunately, the light is not bright enough…
Early Stages of Arduino/LED interaction from ryan scott davis on Vimeo
Blink Project: Issues
Problem: I want an LED to change based on my email status, but Gmail has no API (not that I would want my gmail credentials being passed around that way anyways). Twitter has a nice API, right? Sure. I want the Twitter API, using PHP, to tell my Arduino that something has changed.
Solution: I don’t know how to do this. Turns out that communicating with Arduino via Serial is more confusing than I thought. I spent a day and a half playing around with getting data into the Arduino.
Conclusion: This project has changed. I will now focus on creating a blinking project without the use of Arduino (only relying on the Arduino for power).
Blink Project: Phase One
I’m in heavy personal debate on which direction this project will take.
Ideas:
1) A feedback-oriented LED blinking in respose to a software. My first though, using the Twitter API to tell the device a new message exists.
2) A creative physical interaction. Interaction with control devices that allows for a fun and engaging interaction. Many lights, many switches, pots, and senors, that creates a fun environment.
Physical Computing
I’m getting excited for the Developing Physical Computing course I am taking this spring. Just bought a second Arduino (the new fancy 2009 version. Our first project is something that blinks, with good and creative usability (of course). Will be posting progress pictures soon, maybe this class will force me to finally get a decent video camera?
Tagged: Arduino
Lost in the Shadows
Lou Gramm’s Lost in the Shadows from The Lost Boys is in all honesty one of my favorite songs. That steady snare is really something to be said about the vampiral (new word of the day) beat of the modern era. The Lost Boys movie is great; I’m a big fan of all things Kiefer and this is no exception.
So how happy was I hear that The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe existed? A moderate amount. That’s almost Kiefer Sutherland, it’s his younger half-brother, Angus (obviously) who gets the lovely role of reinventing vampire-majesty.
Yes, it’s direct to video.
Finished Twin Peaks
It was pretty amazing, although I do feel slightly sad – I can’t say too much without dropping some serious business spoilers. I will definitely watch it again, mostly because Josie reminds me of that kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Tagged: images
Hello Mr. Blogosphere
Here I am.
I updated this beast to wordpress 2.5.1. turns out that was a bad idea, as it killed all my plugins and I didn’t backup my older entries correctly (whoops), so please bear with me as I get all the older entries back into the ‘blogosphere’.