Our Ping Sensor Code.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Some Images from Project Two
NRG Map
Our finished product, an interactive map of energy consumption by state.
Our massive amount of wiring.
Ben presenting our piece.
Working on the code.
Our concept drawing.
Construction
Construction
Construction
Construction
Construction
Wiring our buttons and LEDs.
Rhino Drawing
Some Images from Project One
Our circuits in the works..
Building the housing..
Eric being weird.
Nick plotting out our wiring..
Griffin testing the markers..
Planning and Construction phase..
Final Group Shot..
Back view of our wiring..
Early stages of deconstructing our toys..
Not sure..
Final finished project.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Auto Repair : How to Discharge a Capacitor
How to discharge a capacitor.. pretty important so I don't end up shocking myself (which is very possible.)
C74 Perspectives: Laetitia Sonami
Laetitia Sonami has created this "glove" that controls the sound in her performances.
Slow and steady....gets the assignment done. (maybe)
So.. My group (Griffin, Eric (or Tex, whichever you'd like to call him), Nick) and I started out with 4 toys. A baby, a drum, an electronic whoopee cushion, and two different keyboards. Things were exciting at first...We were super happy to take stuff apart (as us sculptors usually are..) Our first motive (mine and Griffin's...big surprise) was to try to make baby and fart noises happen together, but that didn't work, it just killed the electronic whoopee cushion. Shortly after killing our whoopee cushion, our unconscious desire to kill things moved onto the baby, because she was the next to go. Which was rather disappointing, I enjoyed having that baby in my studio, it creeped people out (which always makes me smile.) So, two toys down, two to go.. (two classes in.. might I add..) The first keyboard was killed.
So, to replace the broken keyboard, we got an I-dog ( a little plastic toy that blinks, barks, and wiggles it's head to music)... Now, with our spree over, we still managed to keep two functioning toys, and some baby eyes that still blink. After a couple frustrating classes and a lot of "What should we do with these freakin' toys?!" conversations.. I think we are on the right track. We connected a potentiometer to our keyboard/i-dog creature, and it manipulates our sound really well. Our housing needs to be re-cut, I don't think we realized how small it was going to be when it was on the computer, so that's our next task, but for now, I think we're doing okay.. and I'm finally starting to feel better about circuit bending... for a while there.. I didn't have much faith.
So, to replace the broken keyboard, we got an I-dog ( a little plastic toy that blinks, barks, and wiggles it's head to music)... Now, with our spree over, we still managed to keep two functioning toys, and some baby eyes that still blink. After a couple frustrating classes and a lot of "What should we do with these freakin' toys?!" conversations.. I think we are on the right track. We connected a potentiometer to our keyboard/i-dog creature, and it manipulates our sound really well. Our housing needs to be re-cut, I don't think we realized how small it was going to be when it was on the computer, so that's our next task, but for now, I think we're doing okay.. and I'm finally starting to feel better about circuit bending... for a while there.. I didn't have much faith.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
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