Monthly Archives: October 2010

Comm Lab – Week 6 (Marshal McLuhan)

Posted on October 27, 2010 by alex

Understanding Media (The Medium is the Message / Hot and Cold) While McLuhan takes bold steps from within a categorical framework he doesn’t quite push far enough in my opinion. McLuhan posits that the medium itself is of primary significance, … Continue reading →

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Computational Media – Week 8

Posted on October 27, 2010 by alex

Dynamics Sketch for Meme Collider Movement and GUI sketch Meme Collider will hopefully grow into a final project for the semester. While I am still figuring out the basic logic, the general idea is a fluid space where words and … Continue reading →

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Applications – Presentation (Linda Stone)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by alex

Easy Breather Group 14 (Lyne Burke, Steve Klise, Christine Selleck, Naliaka Wakhisi, and myself) presented on Linda Stone’s talk. Our presentation centered around an app that we created called “easy breather” which can be downloaded here …password: “emailsnapnea” Original Processing … Continue reading →

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Physical Computing – Week 6 (Serial Duplex)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by alex

Parsing multiple serial inputs After getting acquainted with different ways to separate multiple sensor values in serial read, including punctuation and handshake methods, a simple processing sketch that uses multiple sensor values in much the same way that a ball and … Continue reading →

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Computational Media – Week 6

Posted on October 20, 2010 by alex

Ultra Lo Def While Hi Definition is all the rage… how else to stand out but with a maximum resolution of 4 x 3 pixels… Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is truly riveting, especially with the matching 4bit downsampled audio. While … Continue reading →

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Comm Lab – Week 6 (Audio)

Posted on October 20, 2010 by alex

The Ballad of Billy Jack Play Audio (4 min.) Warning: Explicit language – NSFW In collaboration with Alex Kozovski and Sajan Ravindran… We composed a multitrack audio sketch. Voice by Billy Jack accompanied by an original score.

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Physical Computing – Week 6 (Observation)

Posted on October 19, 2010 by alex

Hands (手) At first I began by watching people use things like laptops, mobile phones, iPods, etc… but began to consider something perhaps more at the core of all these devices; being the limitations and unique abilities of a what … Continue reading →

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Physical Computing – Week 6 (Serial Out)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by alex

Serial Output to Processing Using serial.print from an Arduino to a processing sketch the variable resistor  / potentiometer value can be visually mapped to a continuous graph. It would be fun to see the same concept applied to a multi … Continue reading →

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Computational Media – Week 5

Posted on October 13, 2010 by alex

Meme Collider (GUI / movement sketch) This sketch resolves some basic styling and general movement for a larger project called Meme Collider. Applet and Source

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Physical Computing – Week 5 (EMG Revisited)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by alex

EMG Controller An ongoing collaboration with Ezer Longinus. Over the weekend we were able to get consistently solid readings from our EMG (Electromyograph). We rebuilt our circuit with the AD620 instrumentation amplifier and an OP97 operational amplifier using a schematic … Continue reading →

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