Category Archives: Physical Computing

Thought Bubble (EEG Controlled Blimp) Team: Alex Dodge, Ezer Longinus, Johnny Lu, Stepan Boltalin This project’s original aim was to implement Electroencephalograph data to remotely drive a helium blimp. Concept and early development can be seen here. It became clear … Continue reading →

UI (Urinary Interface) Team: Alex Dodge, Ezer Longinus, Johnny Lu, Stepan Boltalin The “UI” is an exercise in dynamic fluid detection. To make the project exceedingly more silly we decided to deploy our fluid detector as an input device within a urinal … Continue reading →

EEG Controlled Blimp (Thought Bubble) After many failed attempts we finally succeeded in fusing the silver mylar material that we will make our blimp with. Trying the methods seen online which made sense, like thermally fusing the material, but proved … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →