Archive for November, 2010

ICM Final Proposal – Visualizing Financial Markets as Eco-Systems

November 23, 2010

Although there is an enormous amount of talk concerning the economy and the financial markets, there appears to me to be very little good visualization of the two that’s publicly available. Most tend to be classic bar and line graphs. Although some interesting work has been done by: Ben Schneiderman, Martin Wattenberg, “the SEC Data Guy” and [...]

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Phys Comp Labs

November 8, 2010

Here are a few of the labs that haven’t been documented to date: Servo controller – added the following line: Serial.println(analogValue); Range of the flex sensor is about 20-960, so code was modified as follows: pulse = map(analogValue,20,960,minPulse,maxPulse); Resulting in much smoother motion of servo. Tone Controller – sensor range is 60 – 900 depending [...]

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Etch-a-Duino continued

November 1, 2010

We have to hook up the parts and complete programming today. A few translation and aesthetics challenges: We need a few decisions: (1) should we solder a regular header to the touch screen wires? Seems like it would make life much easier. (2) should we try to get a 1 in hollow plastic tube and [...]

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