These are the sketches I made to map out how I wanted to make the prototype. I drilled holes for 13 leds and wire wrapped all of the legs and used a common ground.
Here it is with a light pattern that does not include pwm.
Arduino code.
sorry i can't be in class today, but here now, for your enjoyment is my second iteration of the timepiece.
schematic of the design i devised and then executed:
finally, here is the piece in action:
my hilariously ineffective code can be viewed HERE. yes, i realized a nested for loop could accomplish the final 500 lines in about 10, but that's just my style, OK?! i'll fix this in the next iteration, most definitely.
speaking of my next iteration, i realized after working on this project, that i am BASICALLY re-constructing the same object/aesthetic as i did for my studio final LAST SEMESTER. a cube, littered with colored LEDs. see what the hell i am talking about. i have decided that my next iteration will be a completely new enclosure, and will consist of a perfect sphere(s). i'm done with cubes, it will be a very, very long time before i put LEDs into plastic or plexi cubes. this i vow.
a lot more images of the construction
for some reason, vimeo is taking more than 200 minutes to 'convert' the vid. here is the link:
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| 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
2
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…
I was born in Ukraine and when I was 10 my family and I immigrated to Israel, where I grew up, graduated school, served in the IDF and earned my B.Ed. in Design and Education from Haifa Nery Bloomfield Wizo Academy. Since graduation I was working mostly with print graphics and advertising.
But, the interactive media, installations and physical computing fascinated me. I missed a passion for creative challenges and innovation but most of all I was missing the feeling of creating things with my own hands and not just the computer.
I found the combination of all it in the MFADT program at Parsons and immediately decided that I’m going to do it, even though it seemed like the most impossible fantasy at the time.
Computation – it is a big challenge for me, absolutely don’t have any programming background, but this is the reason for me being here. My biggest dream ever, was to make toys, but in a way it was impossible even to think about it. Now I’m totally obsessed with the idea to be able to develop and create my own interactive toys.
I love toys and mostly stuffed toys. My favorite childhood toys are still my favorite toys. When I came to New York I took many stuff out from my suitcases just to make room for some more stuffed toys.
My favorite one, was a small, old, fluffy dog that was named “Bulka”, but unfortunately he mysteriously disappeared 14 years ago. I found this picture in the Internet, which reminds him a lot.
Name: Kirsten Halterman
Photo:
Background: I grew up in a small northern California town by the name of Moss Beach. Moss Beach is located on the coast about 45 minutes south of San Francisco. I earned my BFA in Graphic Design at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Upon graduation, I worked for a biopharmaceutical company (Amgen) for about two years in South San Francisco doing production/design work. About a year into doing layout work, I grew tired of it and realized that I was growing ever increasingly more excited about the digital aspects of design. So, I decided to apply to graduate schools for my MFA – Parsons was my first choice.
Why I'm in Computation: I’m taking Computation because it’s completely foreign to me and I want to learn as much as I possibly can during the next year and a half. I’ve always been interested in childhood development and I’m becoming increasingly interested in how ubiquitous computing in toys can be used for educational purposes. I’m very excited and slightly terrified of the final project.
Favorite Childhood Toy: Favorite childhood toy: I used to love watching the Wuzzle Videos as a kid and playing with my Wuzzle in my parents’ front yard. I remember actually thinking that my Wuzzel (the purple elephant guy) used to sneak off and play with the other Wuzzles, like he did in the video, when I wasn’t looking. 
I must have taken this picture right when I to New York, cuz I am really tan. I grew up in Miami, so this winter is my first real winter. I came up with only t shirts, so I had to buy a whole new wardrobe. I received my BFA from Florida State University in 2006. I studied graphic design, 3D animation, and suprisingly only a small amount of web. The best classes that I took were with Stuart Robertson for visual effects. Stuart is a badass and his most notable achievement was an Oscar for visual effects in the movie "What Dreams May Come." The film school is top ten in the nation and our class was working on effects for student films. I took it for two semesters and the second semester, my friend and I did the special effects for Stewart McAlpine's MFA thesis film titled "The Caress of the Creature", which was about a gay sea monster. The run time was approximately 20 minutes and there were quite a few visual effects due to the fact that we had to create the illusion of a cave in a boy scout cafeteria with blue and green screens.
After I graduated, a friend introduced me to Flash and I haven't stopped. I became a flash designer/developer at an interactive agency named WA007. I decided to go to Parsons to pursue my own interests and here I am.
My favorite toys growing up were the teenage mutant ninja turtles. My favorite was Donatelo because if you played with him in the video games on NES, his weapon had the furthest reach. Got em.
Oh yeah. I am taking computation because I am tired of making things for pixels only. I want to bring it out into the real world for more interaction.
Love TMNT! Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO!
I am Katherine Lee.
This is a photo of me:
So what brings me here is a story likely both unnecessarily long-drawn and uninteresting. Regardless, a little background on me: I hail from Sandy, Utah, in the burbs of big, bad Salt Lake City. I did my undergrad in Philly at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied molecular biology and economics. I went on to do a masters in biotechnology. I became a little obsessed with biotech start-ups and all sorts of crazy little seed companies and subsequently went to work for a boutique biotech consulting firm in Boston, focusing on early and seed stage clientele in all sorts of healthcare and medical device technology ventures. From there, I made a bit of a career shift into the financial services industry, doing healthcare investment research for a financial company, which is mostly what I've been doing for the past few years upon stumbling somewhat ungracefully into the MFADT program at Parsons.
As for the foreground, I approach this class with the hope that I can approach computation without trepidation, despite any lack of broadly or finely based understanding of what I'm dealing with. I also really like making things and twiddling around with stuff, fixing things or mashing them together until they either work or refuse to ever work again. The combination of these is attractive.
The following is a toy that I remember loving from childhood, a playhouse based on a Hello Kitty obsession, with little toy candies and things that you can plug into the house (obviously…). So great.
Bruce Drummond
Background: Born and raised in India, I completed my undergrad in Commerce (trade?) in 1999, went on to do a course in advertising and autonomous courses in graphic design. In the last 9 years I've done a variety of work in print, publishing, branding, advertising, illustration, graphic design, 2d flash animation, elearning, interactive design, web design and programming, music composition and live performance.
I'm in computation because: The thought of building interactive physical objects excites me and this is an area I'm keen on exploring!
My favorite childhood toy: Was a plush monkey who wore a checkered shirt. My aunt made him for me and I have no pictures, so here's the next favorite toy I remember, it's an H.M. Murdock action figure:
Name: Stephen (Steve) Varga
This is what I look like:
My Background is in interactive design and web programming/development. I am originally from the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, and have lived between Philadelphia and NYC my entire life. I have an undergrad degree in traditional graphic design, but for the last couple years I have been almost exclusively involved in itneractive design. I was working as an interactive designer for the last couple of years, but I recently quit my job to pursue a more code/development based career. I am looking to learn as much as possible and have fun doing it.
I am taking this class to learn a lot more about prototyping and hardware, and create awesome stuff. I really want to integrate hardware and software to create new and interesting interfaces, as well as learn how to create something completely physical that can engage and excite people in a meaningful way. Also I just wanna make really cool stuff.
This is my favorite childhood toy:
Its a glow worm, it has lighting on the inside and when you squeeze it it turns the lighting on and off. I used to play with it when I couldn't sleep at night.
Tools [in order of importance]
needle nose pliers
small wire wrap tool
small glue gun
snipes
30-20 awg (gauge wire stripers
Parts:
Battery pack (provided)
Switches
Power Adapt [ DC Power Plug, Coaxial, 5.5mm x 2.1 mm]
USB Cables
header pins (rectangle not round)
9 volt batteries
30 gauge wire
Stores:
Digikey
Mouser
All Electronics
Sparkfun
Parallax
Radio Shack
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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