update 1.
i played with timer IC(TLC555) today to see if i can get a simple glow behavior from it, but i couldn’t get it working properly. my guess is the capacitors i had to use instead of the ones that was suggested on datasheet but ones i didn’t have. i will get the right numbers [...]

Ai-Chen and I did a bit of rewiring on the Secret Tree circuit board. One of the problems we had last week was that all of the ground wires for the LEDs on the trees were connected to two PCB terminals. I didn’t purchase enough terminal at RadioShack so that every pair could have a ground of its own. This not only made things messy, but it also made the connections suspect.

The other major discovery I made which explained much of the circuit’s random (unintended) behavior was that the two AD5206 chips interfered with one another. I plugged a single LED into each of the twelve outputs (across the two chips) and found that a simple test program didn’t operate properly when both chips were running. As soon as I disconnected the three data lines (CLK, SDI, and CS) from the second chip, the first chip would work properly. I wondered if there might be some sort of “floating” condition when the two chips were used together. Since CLK and SDI were shared, I hypothesized that CS was likely the culprate. To test this, I added 10K pull-down resistors on the chip selects of both chips. It worked! The test program dimmed the lights in the proper sequence rather than skipping around randomly on the third and fourth outputs.

The Emotional Brain- The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional LifeJoseph LeDouxSimon & Schuster PaperbacksNew York London Toronto Sydney—–Emotional responses are mostly generated unconsciously. We have little direct control over our emotional react…

Over the weekend I’ve struggled with getting the comments to work on this blog. It looks like it’ll be more trouble than it’s worth. Which is too bad. I love getting feedback. I love people challenging what I’m doing. Just the fact that people are reading or looking at what I’m doing is pretty satisfying in itself. Discussion is active thought. Also this weekend, I was lucky enough to get a couple blog mentions for the BlinkCam (Thank you for your support Despina and Regine). It was first picked up by WMMNA, which is a blog that I love and subscribe to. The collation of so much good stuff going on (and first hand!) is a wonderful resource. From there it was picked up by the ever-vigilant Gizmodo (whose headline at the time of this post was “Robot Sex: It’s Here”) — always fighting the good fight to bring us the latest gadgetry and detritus from the nether-regions of the internet and beyond. Gizmodo’s regular readers seem to enjoy Gizmodo’s collation as well. I’ve decided to post here the comments that the BlinkCam garnered on the day that it was posted. I think the comments speak for themselves, but I will say that comment #17 is a fairly good metric as to what lies beneath. Here they are:

#1) EQC says:

Wouldn’t it make more sense to take a picture of what you *would* have seen had you not blinked? Turn the camera around, and it’ll make more sense. Who wants a bunch of pictures of themselves with their eyes closed?

#2) Image of Fuzz Fuzz says:

Someone get this guy 50cc’s of girlfriend! Stat!

#3) Cobolman2 says:

And not only is does the incredible Blink-Cam take washed-out pictures of your own face every six seconds, but it also doubles as birth control! Act now!

#4) CBMTTek says:

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the new 40 year old virgin.

#5) atomx says:

worst invention ever.

#6) Marty200 says:

He probably loses more time actually looking at the photos of when he blinked.

mg

#7) frndlybnny says:

Well, I would post a snotty comment about his invention, but how much time am I going to lose doing that? Eh, what the hell: that thing is utterly fucktarded. Will he go on to invent the submarine screen-door next? We can only hope.
#8) CafeRacer1200 says:

Have you looked around you lately? Maybe I WANT to miss some of what presents itself before me.

#9) Eugene says:

A Polaroid picture? Does have stock in the company or has he never heard of a digital camera?

#10) SuppleMonkey says:

What’s wrong with this guy?

#11) canfezplay says:

i can live with losing eight days, compared to the 31025 that i have total (thats for 85 years)..ok so 31017…whoopdee freaking doo

#12 obbie says:

its on polaroid film? man that must be expensive!

#13) sam_i_am says:

Anna Nicole Smith would be six feet under if she had Blink-Cam.

#14) Fluidity says:

So fucktarded that you just have to be impressed.

#15) kevininstereo says:

just give me a camera and I’ll do the same… 100% of my photos are taken of a person in mid-blink. Where’s my medal?

#16) blore40 says:

Narcissus!

#17) qwertyblue says:

quite a stupid invention, but funny all the same. As soon as I read I thought the exact same as you Marty200, and I laughed when I read kevininstereo’s comment. good stuff.

Thanks for the feedback guys! Let’s keep the conversation rolling.

Dykehouse: Ultra Taboo
Dykehouse: Kalamazoo
Girltalk: I Want You Back
Le Tigre: Metro Card
Butthole Surfers: Pepper
Butthole Surfers: Thermador
Calexico: El Picador
Calarts Jazz: Meltdown
Black-eyed Peas: Weekends
Luscine: Haze
Luscine: Push
Paul Wall: Internet Goin’ Nutz

Roommate Nate has resurfaced! I lived with Nate for a few years. He’s a really good guy and though a little flaky, he does know how to cook.  One day I will run into Nate at Blanchard’s and it will be awesome.

I’ve gone through a number of iterations for my the thesis. I scrapped my original idea thinking it wasn’t worthy of thesis, then came around full circle and realized my original idea was exactly what I wanted to be doing. My CrowdScapes project explores the technology and ideas that I am most [...]

Book Review—Music and the Emotions–by Malcolm BuddRoutledge & Kegan PaulLondon, Boston, Melbourne and HenleyEmotions—-Chpt 1Emotions have intensive magnitude and lack extensive magnitude.An emotion is not itself assigned a location in the body, bu…

in cellphone studio testing georss

ITP’s Nick Hasty has joined the Haiku News team.
We aren’t in a position to use RSS feeds yet, so in an attempt to
keep the material for the haiku generator nature themed we have
chosen to look up environment related words in Wikipedia, grab all of
the text from the introductory paragraph for each word, and dump them
into [...]

ITP’s Nick Hasty has joined the Haiku News team.
We aren’t in a position to use RSS feeds yet, so in an attempt to
keep the material for the haiku generator nature themed we have
chosen to look up environment related words in Wikipedia, grab all of
the text from the introductory paragraph for each word, and dump them
into [...]

Haiku News Progress
We aren’t in a position to gather incoming RSS feeds yet, so in an attempt to keep the material for the haiku generator nature themed, we have chosen to look up environment related words in Wikipedia, grab all of the text from the introductory paragraph for each word, and dump them into a [...]

In Cell Studio I’ve been working on a nifty little app for your mobile device that helps you take panoramic pictures. This functionality has long been around (and often underused) on digital cameras but not available for the camera on your phone. In th…

http://www.indigi-net.org/rss.xml
Now i just need to start inputing data and get some users…

Some first runs of plain surfaces under the influence of fields etc using Blender. I got better results while using mesh plains vs NURB surfaces.

Feel free to use this page to experiment with the Text Formatting Rules. Just click the “Edit Page” link at the bottom of the page.

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I tried again to make another cable prototype yesterday afternoon.

Signal “Wire” Layer

Applying the First Shield Layer

Applying the Second Shield Layer

My sewing was not entirely straight, so I’m not sure how well the prototype will carry audio signals. There may even be shorts between the layers. My next step is to test the “cable” with an audio signal. I want to try the wearable cable with a microphone to see how much noise my homemade cable produces. I also need to terminate the shield and signal wires with rings so I can solder wires or other connectors to them.

I’ve had another idea about how to make the cables: if I use wider strips of conductive fabric, I could make piping with a stitch of conductive thread down the middle. This would be easier to construct than my second prototype.

I’ve discovered that three layers of fabric and the associated stitching produce a fairly stiff package. I’m not sure if this will work well for creating curved “wire” paths in clothing.

while i was basically spamming people on flickr to advertise about the group “shoeLoveStory” I created to experiment a network of shoe lovers, i confronted this obstacle:

oops. i guess flickr has this system to block spammers like MYSELF.. hah!
it actually feels weird to be a spammer whom i always detested so much! but interestingly (or [...]

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Lecturer: Toru Hasegawa, Mark Collins
Syllabus: fabinfo page
Assignments: 3D Printing, CNC Milling
Project: isomotion, surfshaping

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Full Botanicalls circuit with solar sensor battery boost

Kate Hartman and I are working on augmenting Botanicalls with a solar panel that will act as both a light sensor and a battery charger for each plant in the project. The full circuit schematic is above with a detail showing the solar charge and sensor connections below. We’re planning to try a 3 Volt rechargeable battery with a low-drop voltage regulator for our power supply. Click on each of the images for a full-size graphic.

Detail of solar sensing and battery boost sub-circuit

The next project steps will be to build the sub-circuit on a test breadboard, to see how well different panels are able to charge various batteries while sensing light values using the Arduino microcontroller.

This is where we begin with writing C. First we are going to set up our environment.

You are going to need a few things:

The most recent build of Eclipse available here

Decompress the file and …

이제 7개월이 지났다. 꿈만같던 시간들이 조금씩 현실로 다가온다.
지나다니는 길이 청운동사무소 앞길처럼 느껴진다.
하지만 아름다운 현실이다.
난 이걸 원해. 난 이걸 하고 싶어. 난 이걸 만들고 싶어.
want 라는 말을 하루에도 몇번씩 쓴다.
한국에서는 식욕도 없어서 먹고싶은게 없었고 - 옷 욕심은 많았다만은
하고싶은것도 의식속에 있었지 딱히 실천할 수 있는 일이 없었다.
떠나기 전에 하고 싶은 일들을 적어봤지만
홍대 클럽 빵 가기. 맛있는 빵을 수프에 찍어 먹기. 정도였다.

원하는 것이 많아졌고 그걸 하나씩 만들어가고 있다.
거기다 그냥 상냥하게 웃기만 하던 아이들과
농담 따먹기하며 장난치며 정스럽게 눈빛을 나눌 정도로 친해졌다.
졸업하고 나면 무척이나 그리울 아이들이라서, 그때가 되면 무지하게 슬프겠구나.싶다.
하지만 아련한 그리움이 좋다. 또다시 맞이하게될 아련한 그리움.

하루하루 최선을 다한다.
많이 웃고 많이 만들고 많이 손을 잡아주고 많이 사랑한다고 말한다.

시간이 너무 빨리 지나간다.
어릴때 맞이하던 방학처럼.

converse story

Originally uploaded by uhoh…

Dear Shoe lovers,
i created a group at flickr where people can share their fond memories about their shoes. you can upload pictures of your shoes and tell others the story that relates your loved ones like friends, family, or any other [...]

(Response to Urban Computing entry: 05. Crossroads)
“What happens when two or more city streets intersect?”
I often think of the rules embedded within street intersections. Painted stripes dictating lanes and crosswalks, traffic lights and signage all orchestrate this flow of movement between people and autos. Sometimes I think it’s crazy that these simple colors and symbols [...]

i rarely post direct solicitations for link exchanges…but this was bizarre enough that i had to bite :: Fur-Ever Creations Home Page…

The Brute Performance Kit is set forth as a project to enable ad-hoc performances in public spaces. It is most effective at concerts, openings, conferences, and other events that involve large numbers of people. Being fully autonomous it can travel within a crowd of possible strangers. Any two people using it start having a from of interaction that is dictated by the BPK’s form factor and audio feedback. The physical interface suggests a spiraling movements. The generated soundscape animates use…

“there’s something about me that makes me forgettable.” she purred this out, sullen and indifferent. “we’re born alone and we die alone. maybe I just remind people that.”
he shakes his head, disagreeing like a complaint.
she could tell him about the routine of life, how she glides a few inches above it. she could tell him about the African coast, how it turns orange at the end of the summer or how she is never in any of her dreams.
he wouldn’t remember any of it.
‘if time is immeasurable, then how do you know when you’re finished? how do you know when it’s over?’
she wanted to ask.
maybe he would say that time is only immovable, flawed yet thorough. but he felt her pushing it against his eyes like the landscape - peninsulas with lonely fingers, extra letters.
she sighs, “i have this home, but I’m still homesick.”

working on the English -(transliterated) Hebrew dictionary, I realized just how complicated writing a good dictionary is.
not for my mid term assignment, but as a lesson; I guess figuring out the structure (architecture of the project) should be the first task.
here are the files; I will elaborate more on the process shortly
MidTerm_Dictionary Files

You know, it just dawned on me, Critical Design is meant for Designers, right? However, I am interested in directly targeting the Users. I am interested in empowering Users to be their own designers.

Initial Sketch for Project Icons

The ITP Solar Powered project will channel power into many of the small electrics on the ITP floor, using energy created by our rooftop solar panel. The aim of the project is to create high visibility for sustainable power while fully utilizing our limited clean energy resources.

Currently the solar panel is set up to charge two 60Ah lead-acid battery packs in alternation. While one battery drinks up sunny delight on the 12th Floor, the other is wheeled down to the 4th Floor for use. There its built-in inverter will power a set of AA and 9-Volt battery charging units. The small batteries, once loaded with solar-sourced electricity, will be able to power microcontrollers, motors, art projects, remote sensing systems, cameras, sound recorders and anything else with modest electrical needs. If enough capacity remains, video cameras, iPods and laptop computers could also plug in and take a drink from our nearest star. Because rechargeable batteries are reused rather than being thrown away, the project will also save the materials used in creating alkaline batteries while removing their toxic products from our waste stream.

Batteries are pretty small and the power inside is invisible. There needs to be a clear indication of which projects and devices are running off the sun, so that this project can pave the way for bigger things. Visibility, labeling and signage will be as important as the power and technologies that are used. The main battery charging station should be in a high traffic location with clear signs and attractive color graphics. It needs to be obvious to members of the ITP community so that they are reminded to use it, and for visitors so that they can learn more about our sustainability endeavors. Rebecca Bray will be creating the graphic designs for the project. Gallery exhibits and show pieces will be able to feature an ITP Solar Powered logo on their signs and web sites. Stickers and hang tags will be available for anyone who uses solar juice in their camera, recorder or iPod. To expand the initiative, similar identification materials will be available for projects that are human-powered, recycled, reused or otherwise “green” in nature.

It is hoped that this small beachhead for clean power can be useful as a demonstration of our commitment to sustainable energy, support expansion of our rooftop solar system, and continue the promotion of sustainable practices at ITP and NYU.

I’m sorry but “Donkeys In Heaven” will be canceled tonight. I have to go home and finish up some personal work. I doubt anyone is actually reading this but I just thought I’d be considerate to the few specks that you’d call my listeners. Expect a good show next week. Sorry again.