Nicholas E. Johnson Explorations into the intersection of technology and society.
Linear Models
For this week we are focusing on creating a linear model from our data. By creating a linear model, we can really begin to understand what the data is telling us as well as begin to predict future results. As always, we are working with our Stop and Frisk data and we will read the [...]
Life of Trash
For as long as I have been alive, trash has been apart of my life. Trash is always around but often just a an afterthought. My mission for trash has always been, make sure it gets to the trash can, then its off to a better world. A world far away where [...]
NEJ Instrument Codec
.NEJ Instrument Codec Specification for encoding and decoding classical music instruments into 8 bits. – Nicholas Johnson This specification consists of a simple way to encode and decode instruments of an orchestra by using only 8 bits of information. By focusing on the qualities of each instrument, a simple method can be created to decipher [...]
BOINC/Zooniverse
Interacting with BOINC To begin, getting setup and running with BOINC was extremely easy. Download, install and add projects. After the initial installation however things became a little more unclear. Once I had added projects, my computer started to work hard causing the computer to heat up and drain the batter quickly. This was ok [...]
Eliza: Phone/SMS Therapy Service
The project began with the discovery of the emacs application titled Doctor. This application exists on every mac and allows the user to type phrases and sentences into the Terminal generating a response hypothetically from a therapist. The application is originally based on an application titled Eliza which was developed in the 1960′s. The program [...]
Elbow Joint and the BH8000
Common Injury: One of the most common injuries surrounding the elbow joint is a ruptured tendon in the bicep. The distal bicep tendon connects the bicep to the forearm near the elbow joint and can tear in circumstances where the arm is extended and too much force is placed onto the bicep. An example of [...]
Video driven by wind
For this weeks assignment, I used a Processing sketch created in a previous class to grab XML weather data from the weather.gov and then pass the parsed data into a Max patch controlling the speed of video playback. The Processing sketch specifically parses the wind speed from LaGuardia Airport and then uses maxlink, a java based [...]
Compass Swagger
In collaboration with Rose Schlossberg. Our original concept of this project was to study the amount of rotation that occurs throughout the leg while in a state of forward motion. This gait analysis was to help showcase the extraneous movement that occurs while walking. In order to gather this information, we used an arduino in [...]