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• 10.12.09
  Site Specific: Progress Uncategorized | (0)

  The content is intended for use at the Bronx Museum to complement Acconci Studio's pieces in corean.  This was a test to see how the projection lends itself to curved surfaces, since we had only seen it on our screens until now.  Notice how the image seems to wrap around the model when it's actually going off screen. Site Specific : Hands in model from mike k on Vimeo.
• 06.19.09
  Setting Up Crew Alerts Uncategorized | (0)

  Outdoor Movies Rock! Get your own at TextMarks!
• 01.31.09
  4-in-4 Part 1 Uncategorized | Comments Off

  My first idea was to modify an old pair of mono headphones I found in Arizona.  Once dissected, I found induction coils where the speakers should be.  The cable was braided, and the ends were silver Click to play Click to play
• 12.19.08
  Rotobooth at the Winter Show Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (1)

  Promo Card Here's the link.  Thanks for all of the positive feedback everyone.  I'll write an update for the project in the next couple days, but finally there will be some sleep! Here's the photostream.
• 11.20.08
  The Original “Bitter Beer Face” Uncategorized | (0)

  I'm still in awe.  Must've been some skunked Bud-Ver...
• 11.14.08
  New Direction for PComp Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  Having abandoned my initial project, I was pretty worried about falling behind, I met with Kate to express my worries and work around my creative-block.  The problem with the ideas I'd come up with was that they were either to simple/mundane/not interactive enough or they were too ambitious and unlikely to be finished by the end of the semester.  She evaluated the weaknesses of each of these ideas to help me consider the ingredients of a good idea.  Another piece I took away was to think of something that is already a part of my life, something I am already ...
• 11.10.08
  Final Update Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  I decided to ditch the magnet-fluid.  Chris Cerrito and a couple other second years explained their pitfalls with ferrofluid last year.  He said that most of the videos online were deceptively scaled, and that many of the results were results in millimeters.  I'm sure blasting an EM with high voltage would surely make the fluid stand a decent height. After much research, I realize that the ferrofluid has been done time and time again, and fabrication would take up most, if not all, of the time alotted, but the assignment is for interactivity, not for simple controls. I had a similar idea ...
• 11.03.08
  Ideas for PComp Final Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  A year or two ago, I watched a video stream in which someone puts salt in a Ziploc bag and shakes the contents.  The salt started spiralling and bonding with itself, I want to say even floating.  I tried iodide salt, kosher salt, sea salt, with air, without, but to no avail.  I sifted through email, youtube and all the avenues by which I might find it's link.  Three hours later, no floating salt, but a few videos caught my attention.  "Non-Newtonian" Fluid (it's friggin' cornstarch + water) and Ferrofluid. I want to create some sort of intuitive interaction between user ...
• 10.24.08
  Transis-tore me a new one Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  Seriously frustrating.  I understand them, and yet, they didn't want to work.  We wanted to use transistors to open & close our electromagnet circuits, but when we sent a HIGH value from our digital pinout, no current was flowing into our electromagnets.  We then tried plugging in a simple LED where the lightbulb or EM would've been, with a resistor of course, but to no avail. We switched breadboards, transistors (3 or 4!), all leads, pwoer supplies, power adaptors.  Kate mentioned testing the digital pinout by running it through an LED to ground.  So that's first on our list when we ...
• 10.24.08
  Magneto Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  I'm still running on fumes, but I know that there's no getting up tomorrow morning.  I don't have powerpoint installed on this new(er) laptop, but the presentation will be up in the next day or so. I spoke to Dan Shiffman today about further customizing his brightness mirror patch.  We wanted to have a mouse & keypressed function to freezeframe, which ordinarily we would use a pause() command, but since the Capture class doesn't have said f(x), Dan suggested we save the frame as a PImage file that we can use to fake a pause. Once we can get the transistors working, ...
• 10.23.08
  Electro-Magnate Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (1)

  It's 8:08 AM... yes people, 808. and i did consume 8+8 caffeinated beverages over the course of the last 22 hours I've been P-Comping. I'm not great on documentation after I crash out, but here's some Arduino code. int incomingByte = 0; //servo variables int servoPin = 2;     // Control pin for servo motor int minPulse = 500;   // Minimum servo position int maxPulse = 2500;  // Maximum servo position int pulse = 0;        // Amount to pulse the servo int increment = 50; //there are 40 gear teeth of planar movement //the servo has 2000 explicit values //this means 1 tooth is our greatest resolution of ...
• 10.16.08
  Pin Sculpture Prototype Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  We've come a long way this week, but let me explain from where we were a few days ago. The idea was to create a way that a person can comfort another, in a way that audio and video don't achieve.  Ideally, it would take a 3-dimensional impression of your hand (or whatever you put on it, the cat?), process the values that would then be sent to your chat buddy's computer, then rendered to their 3d surface.  This means a soldier can understand the size of his newborn's foot and people can literally hold hands across the world. When Juri, Diana ...
• 10.09.08
  PComp – Midterm Brainstorm Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  I really responded to Juri's idea of a surface that would let a user interact with someone who is far away.  As some of you know, my girlfriend is in Holland, and as great as video chatting may be, it lacks physicality - sometimes you just need an embrace, or more simply, a hand to hold. The 3d pin model I've had as a kid is still impressive visually, and I'd love to figure out how to read in a 3d shape, process it and update one of these pin sculptures to the specifications of the original shape. After asking around at ...
• 10.09.08
  Serial Communication Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  A great milestone has passed - Processing & Arduino are finally on speaking terms.  What does this mean?  One can finally have something they physically constructed control software, and therefor control a computer, or have an intricate piece of software control something physical. To graph the input voltage of a sensor, we change the type of serial communication from decimal to byte.  While this renders the Arduino information useless, we get a much more useful graph in Processing. [caption id="attachment_105" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="this is your byte on drugs"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_106" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Real-time graphs are much better at understanding your sensor"][/caption] In this instance ...
• 10.09.08
  Rattler-Bot Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  My intention was to use a servo motor to rattle a snake tail necklace that I have.  I envisioned a shoe-box marked "DANGER" that hid an ultra-sonic sensor, which upon detecting the close proximity of a curious ITP student, would rattle the tail. I couldn't find my snake necklace, so I fashioned a rattle from some plastic tubing, lamp chain & wood scraps (oops, Sara I still have your green screwdriver).  This fabrication took abnormally long since the screw for the servo attachments does not like to thread tightly, and after a very long series of trials and errors, I just ...
• 10.06.08
  Delete Your History Communications Lab, Uncategorized | (1)

  [caption id="attachment_94" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... and clear your cache"][/caption]
• 09.29.08
  Response to Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Communications Lab, Uncategorized | (0)

  While I found the majority of the reading pleonastic, there were certainly interesting comparisons made.  Benjamin analyzes the effects technology has on art and, as inferred by the title, specifically how the ability to reproduce the piece augments its meaning, as well as varies the how we regard the medium.  It is also briefly mentioned how the aesthetic can change to facilitate ease of reproduction. Benjamin interprets the advancements in speed of reproduction as a change from the skilled artisan to the precise technician.  With his comparison of painting and film, Benjamin describes this recent shift in paradigm. He uses painting to ...
• 09.18.08
  Observing [ambient] technology Physical Computing, Uncategorized | (0)

  [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="518" caption="Jerry, how could you just wake up one day with a pink moustache?"][/caption] To better understand what makes an interface great, we were assigned to wander the city and observe all the interfaces already being used.  Not just identifying the technology, but to analyze how the user interacts with the device and what motor skills are involved.  Also, the amount of time spent using it, the intentions behind its use, and the number of people involved in the transaction. On Monday, 9/15/08, Filippo and I walked west on Waverly St to 7th Avenue, and took West 4th Street ...
• 09.17.08
  Bang A Gong, Read Some Ong, Get it On Communications Lab, Uncategorized | (0)

  Walter Ong loves to cite himself (talk about shameless self promotion). The first four chapters of Orality and Literacy anthropological account on the transition from oratory culture to that of chirographic or written culture. He distinguishes chirographic culture from use of pictograms or any other symbol based system. Essentially, his meaning of writing is concerned with the first alphabet in ancient Sumeria. Yes kitties, cogito ergo sumo. In distinguishing the two cultures he addresses the contradiction that is "oral literature," referring to storytelling. Literature, meaning writing, as per "litera" meaning "letter of the alphabet" is certainly a case of a literate ...
• 09.17.08
  Olafur’s Waterfalls Communications Lab, Uncategorized | (0)

  This four-part installation of waterfalls on the East River is brilliant. Oddly, I often find myself defending both their artistic integrity and beauty. They are simplistic structures, scaffolding and piping, maybe the critics wanted something more elaborate?  I don't think that anything would've pleased all of New York. Though Eliasson has his purposes behind the structures, the refocusing NY to its rivers has much more connotation to locals.  Certainly they draw attention to fervently discussed environmental issues as well as draw community to our public spaces.  But the East River represents far more than your average metropolitan waterway.  It represents new ...

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