For our 2nd assignment for “Sociable Objects”, Stella and I partnered together to glow leds wirelessly using potentiometers. We followed the schematic in Chapter 9 of “Making Things Talk” and also uploaded the code to our Arduinos. The only change to the code was that I switched the MY and destination addresses on […]
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“The Welcome Robot” – Assignment #1 for Sociable Objects
For our first assignment for Sociable Objects, we had to assess a need on the ITP floor and build a small physical computing project to address that concern. I noticed that there are times when no one is at the front desk, so occasionally there is no […]
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Thursday (May 22), I spent the morning soldering male and female headers to my XBee breakout board. I used the picture at
Sparkfun (3rd picture) to make sure that I soldered female headers on the 2 out rows (on the side which is printed with pin numbers) and I soldered male headers on the 2 inner […]
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Response on May 19, 2008 Readings for “Sociable Objects”
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear” and even more so, the most profound are those which are not seen as technologies at all. Writing has become an extension of human consciousness, and it is Mark Weiser’s goal that ubiquitous computing, the seamless integration of computers […]
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