Category Archives: Fall 2010

Computational Media – Final Project Proposal

Kanji / Hanzi Builder | Meme Collider In collaboration with Johnny Lu we will explore two projects, ultimately bringing one of them to a final and complete form. Both projects concern written language and the propagation of meaning through it. While revisiting … Continue reading

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Physical Computing – Final Project Proposal

Final Project(s) Proposal Collective workflow management: sharing the workload of multiple projects among a small group bound by similar interests… This approach will hopefully allow us to undertake a greater range of projects; each exposing a different set of technical … Continue reading

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Physical Computing – Custom PCB Tutorial

Making custom printed circuit boards For our “TMG” media controller project we hoped to produce a number of the same EMG – stimulator circuits so that we could multiplex a higher resolution signal interface. This meant that we would either … Continue reading

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Physical Computing – Reading Review

The Art of Interactive Design by Chris Crawford Crawford presents a lively argument for a redefining of interaction and interaction design; in which he describes a strictly dialogic… or explicitly reciprocated series of actions between two or more agents. While … Continue reading

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Physical Computing – Midterm Project (TMG)

TMG (Telemyograph) The underlying concept for the TMG is fairly simple; elaborating on previous investigations with EMG (electromyography), myself, Stepan Boltalin, and Johnny Lu decided to take the concept a step further… taking the reading function of the EMG and … Continue reading

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Physical Computing – Week 7 (Transistors / HBridge)

Layers of Mediation in Circuits Using components like transistors and other integrated circuits offer a means of mediation from a microcontroller like the Arduino letting it control higher current loads that are beyond the capacity of its own power supply. … Continue reading

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Comm Lab – Week 6 (Marshal McLuhan)

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

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)

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)

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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