So here’s our final project! As I mentioned on the post about our media controller, me and Jacki decided to keep developing our project, this time transforming it into an interactive facade. So here’s our project concept: FLUID WALL Structures such as buildings, by nature, create a barrier between the outside world and the world within them. Standing on [...]

  Better late than never! Finally, here’s the post about our media controller – which took us a lot of effort. I did this with Jacki Steiner. Our first idea was to do some sort of interactive video, with projections. However, as we were brainstorming ideas, we thought it would be great if, instead of controlling video, people would control [...]

  This week’s lab is a continuation of last week’s one. We had to control a circle on the screen – a switch would make it appear and disappear on the screen, and a sensor would control the x and y positions. The task required a switch and an accelerometer; since I didn’t have the last one available, I used [...]

  For this assignment we were instructed to observe how people interact with technology, keeping in mind the readings we previously had from product use/ design from Norman and Crawford. This exercise came to me when I wasn’t even looking: on the subway, two women next to me were talking – or better, complaining – about a remote control. One [...]

  Considering I’m a very visual person, this was a really cool lab. The task was to control a graph with a sensor – a potentiometer in my case. First setup pictures (really, really simple: just the potentiomenter on the Arduino): Now to the actual video controlling. I thought I should start with the graphics suggested by the professors: But [...]

  The goal of this lab is to produce simple sounds from, in my case, a piezo. Let’s start with pictures of the setup: And the results:   The first part actually resembles a theremin. Maybe I can try to built one – the only thing I have missing is the extra potentiometer. But please don’t expect it to be [...]

  Learning how to use a servo motor: simple sweep and with a knob (which, in this case, is a potentiometer). First, pictures of the setup: And the action:    

  So, with a huge delay, here is my stupid pet trick! It is a book light/mark. Initially the idea was to use a photocell + a flex sensor placed on the book spine, so that it would be recognized only by opening the book. However, due to lack of time issues (there were no flex sensors available at NYU [...]

  I used two LEDs as the eyes of a little puppet – a dinosaur, as you have probably noticed – and wanted to make it fade with a FSR, so the more you pressed, the brighter the LEDs got, the angrier the dinosaur would be. And, when you pressed so hard, it would start blinking, in accordance with his [...]

  So I did a sensor walk on my way to campus today. As expected, I came across lots of sensors, as documented below: