Things I will accomplish by Feb 3rdMeeting Thursday morning-Galvanic Skin responseAsk permission to use or decide if you want to build or buy itUpdate personal and thesis statementsGo to the Music LibraryDiagram my ideaWork on Preliminary Concept Docum…

InfernopticMost modern screens and displays are comprised of a grid of tightly-packed pixels, and by turning precise combinations of pixels on and off, complex moving images are formed. Now just substitute a 6″ fireball for each of those demure little …

Finally, my mobile project is working. I was trying to complete the assignment which essentially just sends a ping to the device which sent a message (send + respond.) The popper.pl file I was running did not seem to be resending the email. Finally, I checked the code and learned a very valuable lesson: do [...]

I worked with Christian to test the open circuit voltage and short-circuit current for our generator - in this case a stepper motor. This is the circuit that is based off of the diagram that Jeff recommended on the class site.

Leif and I also tested one of the shake flashlights . Using these as [...]

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This project began less than 1 year ago, in a class called Personal Expression & Wearable Technologies. The assignment was to hack an everyday object and create something wearable from it (taking into consideration the functionality & usability, as well as aesthetics.)
During that time, I was particularly interested and involved in methods of data aggregation [...]

pics from our most recent project: designing and remodeling a friend’s courtyard home in Beijing. things are going well. amazing what can be accomplished in two months. We’re on the last week and pushing to get everything finished before all the workers go home for Chinese new year. wacky and fun.

Something happened, there is a book written by Joseph Heller with the same title I read about five years ago and the title, and I believe the content, seem to mirror, but I’m not sure, certainly there was the change of the year, and I got my hair cut, oh and I turned thirty-two. But these changes are immaterial to the feeling that I have, and that i have experienced that something absolutely has changed. School has started again and again I am in swimming through the tsunami of discovery and creation, but on a deeper far more important level what has changed is that I have begun working on my thesis project.

See: http://www.studioaquatic.com

What this has created in me are sleepless nights and a near endless flood of things to do, connections to make, and work to finish. Unlike all the projects I have worked on in the past this one project is the culmination of everything that I have worked on and everything I have learned over the past two years. It is my one chance to express all of these ideas, notions and skills in a single thoroughly established project.

One of the most disturbing trends is that, save last night where I actually collapsed and slept a full eleven hours. I have, for the most part been sleeping only four to five hours a night. I go to sleep around one, wake up at three, work until five, then sleep until eight. This has been going on every night since I started classes again last week.

I have also noticed that I have withdrawn almost entirely into, or rather I have been focused entirely upon, my work at hand. The reality of this has caused a significant reduction in my social life, almost to a point of non-existence. Which is a dramatic contrast to the past six months. What is interesting is that despite this, the momentum I had desired is now there, where I could be meeting people, or even seeing people, I am interested in seeing, but I just can’t at all. If you are reading this, and you feel that this is you, I apologize. The truth is I came to graduate school to better my life, and it is this semester when the final reckoning of that truth comes to fruition.

A low level of cortical arousal is desirable for relaxation, hypnosis, and the subjective experience of psychic states and unconscious manifestations.A high level of cortical arousal gives increased powers of reflection, focused concentration, increase…

Interesting experiment—read it—could not copy-copy feature is disabledThe Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) and Emotion

Galvanic Skin Response Sensor:

Galvanic Skin ResponseGalvanic skin response (GSR), also known as electrodermal response (EDR), psychogalvanic reflex (PGR), or skin conductance response (SCR), is a method of measuring the electrical resistance of the skin. There has been a long histo…

A change in the ability of the skin to conduct electricity, caused by an emotional stimulus, such as fright.

GSR-built in ITPhttp://www.funnydata.com/gsr/index.php?title=Main_PageGSR MeterThe simple psycho-galvanometer was one of the earliest tools of psychological research. A psycho-galvanometer measures the resistance of the skin to the passage of a very sm…

“I tried an experiment based on the generation of a Koch curve, assigning a relationship between note pitch and line angle, and another relationship between note duration and line length.” by Gerald A. Edgarurl to the sitehttp://www.skepticfiles.org/e…

Music without Walls? Music without Instrumentshttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=96175&previous=true&jid=OSO&volumeId=6&issueId=02

$20.00 software to create your own music on PC platformhttp://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/emotion_software/

For years, string theorists have used music as a metaphor for fundamental particles, and now Tymoczko is usiing the mathematics of string theory to understand the fundamentals of music.The math makes it easier to understand objectively what great music…

AuthorsPietro Casella, and Ana PaivaMAgentA ( Musical Agent Architecture), which is an Agent that automatically composes background music in real time using the emotional state of the environment within which it is embedded. Its goal is to generate a â…

Bruce Jacob developed an algorithmic composition system that produces scores for acoustic instruments.He is more interested in hearing it performed by live performers than realized upon synthesizers and samplers. He is also more interested in tradition…

This blog is where I will post my thesis research and ideas.

This week’s reading looks at the applications for CNC, mostly in architecture, construction, and furniture design. The work so far seems kind of disappointing - more curvy, amorphous, minimal shapes. What I want to see is the creation of more intricate and decorative work, putting the machines to use executing things with some [...]