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  Yury Gitman 10:20 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Major Studio – Midterm Assignment 

  Create a Bio-Feedback Experience.

  Description:  Use Heart-rate to create a Bio-feedback artifact/experience which allows a user(s) to understand and interact with their heart-rate.

  Pick One:

  1)  Single User:  User should understand if their heart-rate increases or decrease.  There should be a “feedback” loop in the experience, in which the user is able to gain skills to control their heart-rate up or down.  [Can work in team of 2, One Integrated Prototype per person required.]

  2)  Multi User: Create an experience/artifacts in which more then one users can sync their heart-rate, learn to control their heart-rate, or use their heartbeats in a play experience. [Can work in a team of 2 or 3. One Integrated Prototype per person required.]

  Project Requirements:

  Project should be fully enclosed and battery operated.

  Monday 19th- Present 1-2 Implementation Prototype(s), 1-2 Look and Feel Prototype(s), and 1-2 Role Prototype(s).

  Thursday 22- Present 1-2 Implementation Prototype(s), 1-2 Look and Feel Prototype(s), and 1-2 Role Prototype(s).

  Monday 26th- Present final Integrated Prototype.

  Thursday 29th- Document Project with 2 minute video.

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  aisencc 9:54 pm on March 6, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Fish-Out-Of-Water 

  Fish-Out-Of-Water is a project that explores the mimicry of life with light and sound. I decided to use motors in order to create movement, and from the movement itself comes the sound. The fist iteration was done with a vibration motor. The second iteration was done with two servos, but there were lots of problems with keeping the cables out of their way. The movement, however, improved significantly.

  

  

   

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  aisencc 12:23 am on March 6, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Synth 

  This is my music box synthesizer. The concept was to miss-and-match, sounds depending on the buttons pressed and the combinations, and the potentiometer changes notes or delays depending on the button pressed.

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  Joe Volpe 3:12 am on March 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Project_2 

  Each cylindrical unit contains an LED, a speaker(I used earbud speakers), and a button. When you press one button it makes a distinct tone, as when you press two buttons simultaneously, or all three. There are five combination of sounds that you can create and one combination that changes the pitch of the tones.

  

  

  

  
  

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  normandiaz 2:03 am on March 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  LED’s Box Toy 

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  adamsabh 2:00 am on March 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Dedicated to all the Haters 

  I dedicate this post to all of the people that doubted me in Major Studio.

  I would also like to point out that I am the 3rd homework post out of all of you. BOYA!

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  Joe Volpe 1:20 am on March 2, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Button Board 

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  naterudolph 5:55 pm on March 1, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  SparkFun Beat Box 

  I’ll talk about it in class so there’s no need to cover everything here, but for anyone that’s super bored here’s a blog entry about some of the process for this.

  Here’s what I have so far for the project:

  The connections on the tiles need to be made more stable so you don’t have to hold it down to ensure it’s connected. Right now the top left washers cycle through the speed of the beat, and get reset to zero. Eventually I’d like to made it so the speed fluctuates up and down, but for now it’s still an easy way to lock into a speed you want to use.

  The bottom two sets of washers have some older code on them right now that’s pretty boring sounding and I’ve just been using to test things out. Eventually they will allow you to set certain parameters over the beat being made.

  

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