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TOY FAIR 2009® February 15 – 18 Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY |
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| Sunday, February 15 | 10:00 am – 6:00pm | ||
| Monday, February 16 | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm | ||
| Tuesday, February 17 | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, February 18 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | ||
Notes for Class:
Resistor Calc.
http://www.engplanet.com/content/resistorinfo.html
LED Formula:
http://www.bpesolutions.com/ledcalculator.html
LED Calculator:
One LED
http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz
Series LED
http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz
Led Specs:
http://www.LedShoppe.com
Notes for Class:
Current limiting series resistor formula:
vIN – vLED / 30 milliamp = series current limiting resistor.
((5V – 3V) / 0.030) = 100 Ohm series resistor for
a 5V supply.
((6V – 3V) / 0.030) = 100 Ohm series resistor for
a 6V supply.
((9V – 3V) / 0.030) = 200 Ohm series resistor for
a 9V supply.
((12V – 3V) / 0.030) = 300 Ohm series resistor for
a 12V supply.
Change the mA to 0.020 if using a 20mA LED
Assignment
Read
1) Chapter 1-4 in CODE
2) Cradle to Cradle Design, 20mins
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6397457103509501840&hl=en&fs=true
3) http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/understanding-electricity
Make
Enclose your time piece so it can be:
Displayed by plugging into wall.
Has room for adding 3 switches to the outside.
Has a way to program it easily [possibly an opening].
Shows the passage of time with light.
On Blog Post:
1 sketch on Blog. Place 1 Photo of board, 1 Photo of Project (enclosed), code, and optional Video.
Please Beta Test:
http://apps.facebook.com/thezodiacexperiment/
The Zodiac Experiment is an experiment that tries to prove or dissprove the accuracy of Astroligical compatiablity charts with Facebook relationship data.
Howdy, I think everyone from class has met me already right? I'm the dood that works in the office at the 10th floor lab that always stares at you funny when you walk into the lab - little do you know you are all part of my evil experiment….j/k. Actually, I am just bored….
As you might have guessed im from Texas [Houston]. I got my undergrad from UT Austin in Advertising/Communication. Freelanced in graphic design for a couple of years, then got into construction. First procurement>scheudling>real estate agent> then finally to developing and marketing. I felt the next natural & creative progression would be responsive enviromentments [P-compy stuff], and where else better to get schooled and owned at the same time then Parsons?
At this point I think I would be lying if I didn't say Legos was my favorite childhood toy (Second runner up would be a lighter. At some point I ran out of things to safely burn without causing funny smells that I would get in trouble for, so I got bored of that quick) Sure there were a ton of others toys I played with when I was younger, but ultimately legos = workhorse.
1. It gave He-Man something throw bad guys through
2. it gave my Transformers new weapons to stick in their permanently clenched, yet attachable, fists
3. it gave my GI soldiers a battle field
4. it just let me build whatever it was i wanted to build be it a car, crane or crazy thingy do-a-majiggy
In short it allowed me to be creative.
For this class, I would like to understand the limits of using the arduino as a final solution for interactive product development – without thinking about redesigning final product in say PIC chip. Here I am refering to products created in 1-10 units and not mass production.
1
What Electricity is, simple definitions, and how to use a solderless breadboard from: http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/understanding-electricity
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Hardware Introduction:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDuemilanove
Introduction to the Arduino Environment:
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Environment
firmware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware
3
Led Blink
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink
Led Loop
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Loop
4
Reading:
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/319
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Future Notes to Self:
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Basic Electrical
http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/understanding-electricity
Specific instructions for particular boards.
Digital input & output to and from a microcontroller
Hello! My name is Cecilia and I am from the far away land of the llamas.
I have always had a curiosity for things that are tiny and make sounds. This led me eventually want study to electronic music at Mills College. Yet after taking my first video class, an interest in creating multi sensory experience started to develop. I eventually branched out and started playing with different materials to create installation work. I am fascinated with the idea of creating tiny worlds that I can share with others. I often find my self trying to recreate the spaces that evoke feeling of wonder and intimacy that we experienced in childhood when we inhabited a tree house, a fortress made out bed sheets or a secret-garden. Often, these spaces are inhabited by creatures that I make out of fabric, ceramic, wood, yarn or other materials. Technology then gets integrated into my work, as a mean to bring life to these beings. For the last few years I have taught Graphic Design and Video editing and worked on ceramics in my free time.
My interest in been part of this program, and specifically in this class, is to be able to continue to experiment with the form and material of my interfaces and be able to generate simple behaviors for them that can allow them to bring about more playful and meaningful interactions with people.
My favorite toy was Simon game. Colors and sounds. Yeah!!! I liked it so much that last semester I try to recreate. I never got it to work right 😦
Hopefully Arduino will be kinder with me than the PIC 16F88 was.
SALUTATIONS. my name is joe, and here is an image of me looking scared/surprised/pooping-a-little.
i will now try to summarize my years leading up to this, the 23rd of my life. i was born in brooklyn, NY to two peruvian immigrants whom i lovingly refer to as mom and dad. at age 3, we moved to baltimore, MD where i completed the 9th grade, at which point i was forcefully relocated by the immigrants to los angeles, CA. it was a bad time to move, and i was unhappy, but i made new friends and learned of a new city, so i suppose i can take the experience for what it was worth, and know that i will never live there again. upon graduation high school, i attended the University of California, Davis where i received 2 BA's, one in music composition and the other in technocultural studies. for the record, northern california is fantastic place, and it is only the south with which i have a huge problem. finished at davis in june 2008, shortly prior to which i decided getting a "job" in the "real world" was not for me; so i applied to several schools, and here i am.
why, though, would i ever wish to take a course such as this, major studio: computation? great question, joe. well i have many vested interests in electronics, analog input, and programming. the only language i consider myself 'good' at, however, is max/msp, and let's face it, it's not really a programming language at all, as much as it is an environment. taking data from the real world, and then using a machine to interpret, re-invent or just use as a controller is what i am hugely interested in. my last two years at davis i worked at a neuroscience lab as a research assistant, and was exposed to many types of sensor technologies including EEG, EKG, GSR, and MoCap systems. i began experimenting with using these datatypes and applying them to sound and video in real-time. biofeedback. i'm not too into 'toys' in the conventional sense, however creating something that could be novel and mass-produced for the public is certainly a venture i am curious about.
here was my favorite toy as a child, and dear lord do i wish i still had it:
it is the sword used by none other than my favorite child hood hero, the one and only, He-Man [and the masters of the universe]. the sword had a pressure sensor attached to the blade that would react to being hit against something by lighting up and playing various sound effects. as i recall it also had a theme song play button as well as a lightning shot button for those moments when your enemy was too far away to strike with the blade.
Both seem to be very skilled with hardware…
Gitman at using it, Gagarin at wearing it…
Note the disparity in the number of medals worn by each yury… just sayin…
Evander Batson
xinhe feng
FluffyLeecy
frankiezek
gaboratparsons
giang063
gracegotlost
lauriewaxman
Siwen Li
Xiaofeng Lin
Yury Gitman
mar28th
Max(TONG WEN)
Soohyun
sabotai
Susan Lin
Making Toys 
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