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Robot Love Story Iteration 2

mayaweinstein — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:32:38 +0000

For my short film Robot Love Story I created a black viewing box with a fabric curtain, reminiscent of the old timey movie viewing boxes. The button is in the back and initializes the movie. Putting your face close to the box creates a nice viewing experience for the film and also makes the led’s easy to see. The code is the same as iteration 1.

Filed under: PComp

Frankie Iteration 2

mayaweinstein — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:45:20 +0000

This is the second iteration of Frankie, the smushable Frankenstein pulse sensor for children. He’s soft and so much fun to hug and when you hold his hand his heartbeat shows your pulse.

The code is the same as iteration 1

Filed under: PComp

Frankie iteration 1

mayaweinstein — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:37:10 +0000

For the pulse sensor I decided to make a toy for children to take their pulse with in a fun way. I constructed a toy Frankenstein out of construction paper with an led heart. As a person touches the pulse sensor they bring life to Frankenstein, creating a monster!
Check it out!

here’s the code

/*
This program reads data from the Pulse Sensor.
Serial output is designed to mate with Processing sketch “P_PulseSensor_xx” series
Serial Protocol initiates datastring with coded ascii character, ends each message with carriage return
We named the variable that holds the heart rate (BPM) after the group Quantified Self.
They backed our Kickstarter campaing at the $600 level and having a variable named after them is one of their rewards.
Go Count Yourself!!! http://quantifiedself.com/

by Joel Murphy & Yury Gitman in Brooklyn, Summer 2011.
*/

// VARIABLES
unsigned long time; // Holds current time for pulse rate calculation
unsigned long lastTime; // Used for calculating time between beats
int Sensor; // Holds current analog Sensor Reading
int lastSensor; // Used to find waveform direction
int Peak; // Holds value of peak in waveform
int Trough; // Holds value of trough in waveform
int beats[10]; // Array to collect time between beats for calculating BPM
int beatCounter = 0; // Used to hold position in beats array
int QuantifiedSelf; // Used to hold the heart rate value (BPM)
int drop; // Holds the amplitude of waveform

int fadeRate = 10; // when arduino finds a heartbeat, it will fade an LED on pin 11 (PWM)
int Fade = 0; // Fade variable will set PWM

boolean falling = false; // used to keep track of waveform direction

// PINS
int LED = 13; // pin 13 LED blinks on each pulse
int dimLED = 11; // LED on pin 11 fades with each pulse
int PulseSensor = 5; // Pulse Sensor purple wire connected to analog pin 5

void setup()
{
pinMode(LED, OUTPUT); // set the LED pins as outputs
pinMode(dimLED, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(115200); // start the hardware serial block and set the baud rate
lastTime = millis(); // initialize lastTime variable
}
void loop()
{
Sensor = analogRead(PulseSensor); // take a reading
Serial.print(“s”); // send raw analog data to Processing sketch (or other)
Serial.println(Sensor); // ‘s’ = Raw Sensor Data
// USE WITH LED ON PIN 11 FOR FADE EFFECT
Fade -= fadeRate; // Fade variable set to 255 when heart beat is found
Fade = constrain(Fade,0,255); // these lines fade the LED
analogWrite(dimLED,Fade);

// KEEP TRACK OF THE DIRECTION OF THE WAVEFORM
if (falling == false){ // if the sensor values are rising
if (Sensor lastSensor){ // otherwise, if current reading is bigger, values are still rising
Peak = Sensor; // record the next potential peak
lastSensor = Sensor; // keep track of rising signal
}
}
if (falling == true){ // if the sensor values are falling
if (Sensor > lastSensor){ // if current reading is bigger than last reading
falling = false; // a trough has been reached
Serial.print(“T”); // send trough value to Processing sketch (or other)
Serial.println(Trough); // ‘T’ = Trough in waveform
drop = Peak – Trough; // difference = signal amplitude
Peak = 0; // setting Peak to 0 here helps get rid of noise
// THIS IF STATEMENT IS HOW THE HEARTBEAT IS FOUND IN PULSE SENSOR WAVEFORM
if (drop > 4 && drop <60){ // ignore noise in signal. adjust as needed
timeBeat(); // go work out the BPM
Serial.print("d"); // send the amplitude to Processing Sketch (or other)
Serial.println(drop); // 'd' = amplitude of waveform
digitalWrite(LED,HIGH); // start pin 13 LED blink
Fade = 255; // set fading LED to high brightness

}
}else if (Sensor < lastSensor){ // otherwise, if current reading is smaller weʻre still falling
Trough = Sensor; // record the next potential trough
lastSensor = Sensor; // keep track of falling signal
}
}
delay(20); // break for 20mS. Processing frame-rate = 100.

}// END VOID LOOP

void timeBeat(){
time = millis(); // take note of the current time
beats[beatCounter] = time – lastTime; // record miliseconds since the last pulse in beats array
lastTime = time; // stay up to date!
beatCounter ++; // move array pointer to next position in array
if (beatCounter == 10){ // if we've taken 10 readings, it's time to derive heart rate
QuantifiedSelf = getBPM(); // go derive the heart rate
Serial.print("q"); // send the heart rate to Processing sketch (or other)
Serial.println(QuantifiedSelf); // 'q' = heart rate
beatCounter = 0;
}
}// END OF timeBeat FUNCTION

// This function will return a value for heart rate (Beats Per Minute)
int getBPM(){
int dummy; // used in sorting
int mean; // used in averaging
boolean done = false; // clear sorting flag
// this simple sorting routine will arrange values in the beat array from lowest to highest
while(done != true){
done = true;
for (int j=0; j beats[j + 1]){ // sorting numbers here
dummy = beats[j + 1];
beats [j+1] = beats[j] ;
beats[j] = dummy;
done = false;
}
}
}
// this FOR loop selects the longer beat time values to avoid incorrect heart rate readings
for(int k=1; k<9; k++){ // exclude lowest and highest values from averaging
mean += beats[k]; // add beat times together
}
mean /=8; // averaging
mean = 60000/mean; // devide 60 seconds by average pulse length
return mean; // return beats per minute
}// END OF getBPM function

Filed under: PComp

robot love story, a modern tragedy

mayaweinstein — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:00:53 +0000

Robot Love Story a modern tragedy. The tale of a girl and her robot, they meet, they fall in love. Out of nowhere the robot leaves, the girl is so distraught that she drinks from a bottle of poison and kills herself. The robot returns to find his love dead and is so sad that he destructs. The End.

I used the LOL shield theater to create the animation. I also created a button using soft circuits to control the video

This file was dynamically created by the Lol Shield Theatre: http://falldeaf.com/lolshield/
Feel free to drop by and create your own cinema masterpiece

-falldeaf

Animation information -
/////////////////////////
//title: robot love chapter 1
//author: Maya
//description: robot love
/////////////////////////
//current score: 0 (as of Friday 18th of November 2011 03:14:59 AM )
//animation page at: http://falldeaf.com/lolshield/show.php?anim=698
/////////////////////////

This program is a modification of the Basic LoL Shield Test

Modified by falldeaf on 2/27/2011.

Writen for the LoL Shield, designed by Jimmie Rodgers:

http://jimmieprodgers.com/kits/lolshield/

This needs the Charliplexing library, which you can get at the
LoL Shield project page: http://code.google.com/p/lolshield/

Created by Jimmie Rodgers on 12/30/2009.
Adapted from: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/BitMath

History:
December 30, 2009 – V1.0 first version written at 26C3/Berlin

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Version 3 General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

#include //Imports the library, which needs to be
#include “Font.h”
#include “WProgram.h”

#define SCREEN_WIDTH 13

// Scroll delay: lower values result in faster scrolling
#define SCROLL_DELAY 80

/* How long to wait after the last letter before
going back to the beginning and repeating */
#define REPEAT_DELAY 500

int buttonPin = A4;
int debounce = 10;
int buttonState = 0;
int textLength, totalPixels;
char text[]=”ROBOT LOVE A MODERN TRAGEDY”;

byte line = 0; //Row counter
char buffer[10];
int value;

void setup()
{
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
LedSign::Init(); //Initializes the screen
getLength(text, &textLength, &totalPixels);
}

void loop()
{

// read the state of the pushbutton value:
buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);

// check if the pushbutton is pressed.
// if it is, the buttonState is HIGH:
if (buttonState == HIGH) {
// turn LED on:

int x=0;
for(int j=SCREEN_WIDTH; j>-totalPixels-SCREEN_WIDTH; j–) {
x=j;
LedSign::Clear();
for(int i=0; i=SCREEN_WIDTH)
break;
}
delay(SCROLL_DELAY);
}
delay(REPEAT_DELAY);

// unsigned char subtitle [] = “A MODERN TRAGEDY \xCA\xDB\xB0\xDC\xB0\xD9\xC4\xDE! “;
//
// //16_t x=0;
// for(int16_t j=13;j>-200;j–) {
// x=j;
// LedSign::Clear();
// for(int i=0;i=13) break;
// }
// delay(80);
// }

//delay(100);
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DisplayBitMap(9006);
DisplayBitMap(16042);
DisplayBitMap(7294);
delay(400);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(7168);
DisplayBitMap(13824);
DisplayBitMap(9006);
DisplayBitMap(16042);
DisplayBitMap(7294);
delay(400);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(7168);
DisplayBitMap(8704);
DisplayBitMap(9006);
DisplayBitMap(16042);
DisplayBitMap(7294);
delay(400);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(7168);
DisplayBitMap(9006);
DisplayBitMap(8874);
DisplayBitMap(15998);
delay(400);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(7168);
DisplayBitMap(9006);
DisplayBitMap(8874);
DisplayBitMap(15998);
delay(400);
DisplayBitMap(1879);
DisplayBitMap(338);
DisplayBitMap(882);
DisplayBitMap(1874);
DisplayBitMap(0);
DisplayBitMap(3374);
DisplayBitMap(5474);
DisplayBitMap(5542);
DisplayBitMap(3374);

}
}
void DisplayBitMap(int lineint)
{
//int data[9] = {95, 247, 123, 511, 255, 1, 5, 31, 15};

//for(line = 0; line < 9; line++) {
for (byte led=0; led<14; ++led) {
if (lineint & (1<= 9) line = 0;
}

void getLength(char* charArray, int* lengthPtr, int* pixelPtr) {
/* Finds the length of a string in terms of characters
and pixels and assigns them to the variable at
addresses lengthPtr and pixelPtr, respectively. */

int charCount = 0, pixelCount = 0;
char * charPtr = charArray;

// Count chars until newline or null character reached
while (*charPtr != ” && *charPtr != ‘\n’) {
charPtr++;
charCount++;

/* Increment pixelCount by the number of pixels
the current character takes up horizontally. */
pixelCount += Font::Draw(*charPtr,-SCREEN_WIDTH,0);
}

*pixelPtr = pixelCount;
*lengthPtr = charCount;
}

Filed under: PComp

Mr Pumpkin Head

mayaweinstein — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:06:36 +0000

Mr Pumpkin Head is an interactive jack-o-lantern who gets angry if you wake him. When he is ‘sleeping’ his eyes fade in and out and his mouth is still. If you remove his top the motion sensor is triggered and he wakes up, his eyes stop flashing and his nostrils flare. If you shake his top he gets angry and his teeth flash red.

int pirPin = 12; //digital 2
int brightness = 0;
int fadeAmount = 5;
int ledEyes = 11;
int ledNose = 10;
const int tiltSensorPin = 8;
const int ledTeeth = 7;
const int ledMouth = 4;

void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(pirPin, INPUT);
pinMode(ledNose, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledEyes, OUTPUT);
pinMode(tiltSensorPin, INPUT);
digitalWrite(tiltSensorPin, HIGH);
pinMode(ledTeeth, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledMouth, OUTPUT);
}

void loop(){
if(digitalRead(tiltSensorPin)){
digitalWrite(ledTeeth, HIGH);
digitalWrite(ledMouth, LOW);
}else{
digitalWrite(ledTeeth,LOW);
digitalWrite(ledMouth, HIGH);
}

analogWrite(ledEyes, brightness);
brightness = brightness + fadeAmount;
if(brightness == 0 || brightness == 255) {
fadeAmount =-fadeAmount;
}
delay(30);

int pirVal = digitalRead(pirPin);
analogWrite(ledNose, LOW);

//pinMode(pirPin, INPUT);
//digitalWrite(pirPin, HIGH);

if(pirVal == LOW){ //was motion detected
Serial.println(“Motion Detected”);
analogWrite(ledNose, HIGH);
delay(2000);
}
if(pirVal == HIGH) {
analogWrite(ledNose, LOW);
}

}

Filed under: Uncategorized

Maker Faire

mayaweinstein — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:27:28 +0000

The Reverse GeoCache Puzzle
Mikal Hart

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle is a wooden box containing an Arduino, the exterior of the box has a small LCD displaying a set of numbers. The user takes the box, places something inside, and programs it to open only in a specific place. The user then gives the box to someone else and that person can only open the box when they get to that specific place, the LCD displays the total miles away from the spot. Hart often produces these boxes as engagement gifts, with the ring inside only to be found and opened when the spot is located. I love the idea of a box of secrets that only opens in a certain spot, the only thing I would change is that I think the boxes could have some more intricate woodwork.

Seedbombs
ioby

Seedbombs start out with a ball of clay, the user takes that clay and rolls it in a mixture of compost, grass seeds and wildflower seeds. The user then tosses that ball into a plot of land where it can grow. The idea behind Seedbombs could be thought of like urban guerrilla farming, if there is an abandoned lot surrounded by a tall fence all one would have to do is throw a Seedbomb over the fence and a garden would be planted. I found it very refreshing that these were one of the few people I met at Maker Faire that were not trying to sell me anything. The company itself is a nonprofit and truly believes in finding new ways to better the community. The idea itself is simple but effective and requires little cost on the side of the user.

Vertical Theory
Karen McKay

Vertical Theory is a form of urban gardening using felt and hydroponics, it takes up a small amount of space and is relatively easy to maintain. Although we are inundated with new urban gardening techniques at the moment I was really drawn to this piece. The use of simple materials such as felt, buckets, funnels and hoses made this particular form of urban gardening feel very accessible. With little money, space, and time I could easily set this up inside my apartment and have a harvest within a month. It really goes to show that you don’t need a lot of money and a huge backyard to have a small garden of your own.

Filed under: Uncategorized

About Me and my favorite toy

mayaweinstein — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:27:47 +0000

Hi all! I’m Maya, I got my BFA in photography and BA in Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder. As of right now I don’t have much of a ‘professional’ career to speak of, I was a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to college and just graduated from undergrad last year and moved straight to NYC with the intention of going to Parsons. I love to make things, in the past I’ve experimented with jewelry, sewing, sculpture, and of course darkroom photography so I’m hoping this class will give me the hands on experience that I love.

These are my favorite childhood toy. They are battlebeasts. I had my parents send me photos of the remainders, we had many more but they’ve been lost over the years. These probably came out some time in the early 80′s and are about the size of your pinky. Monkey Man is their leader!!

Filed under: Uncategorized