Making Toys

Major Studio Spring 2012

Midterm Journal Entry 2: pulse sensor Runner’s band

The look at feel for my project is practical and simple. I want to embed the…
Robot prototype

I finally received my Speakjet from Sparkfun so I spent some time carefully soldering that together…
Midterm Project

I choose to originally to do some sort of exercise ball that you would have to…
New Speaker Troubleshoot

Here is another demo of the speaker trouble I am having. I upgraded resistors from 10K…
Here’s the video to that orchestra Adam mentioned…

Here’s the video to that orchestra Adam mentioned in class today:
Pulse Sensor Troubleshooting

So as you know I have had an extremely hard time getting the Pulse Sensor to…
Pulse Sensor:iteration 2

My second iteration was an experiment of creating a different shape with the fabric provided and…
Pulse sensor: iteration 1

For my first use of the pulse sensor and its accompanying code, I created a heart…
Fabric, stuffing, and 9-volt batt packs.

Supplies for fabric and stuffing are in the last cabinet in pcomp lab. With sign on…
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)…
Dedicated to all the Haters

I dedicate this post to all of the people that doubted me in Major Studio. I…
Button Board
SparkFun Beat Box

I’ll talk about it in class so there’s no need to cover everything here, but for…
Not 1….but 2 Buttons!

My video No problems this week. It went surprisingly smooth.
2 buttons, 2 LEDs

I tried to upload the Fritzing diagram with the Arduino code, but the Fritzing site is…
Emotion LED’s inside a box project

I found this project to be very rewarding and refreshing. I was surprised about how quickly…
LED Box

What I found most challenging for this project was getting my individual functions to loop once…
White LED Box

I wrote up a blog entry with much great detail and pics but didn’t want to…