Disorientation is a study of the way in which NYC subway travelers navigate their environment. Why is it that they feel so disoriented both when navigating the station and when exiting the station above ground? I aim to employ human primal instincts in order to make the subway experience less disorienting. Specifically, locating moss on […]
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Liz and I finally finished our Physical Computing final project, Painted Circuits. Please see our code, as well as my previous process posts (initial idea, traces, progress 1, progress 2). This art piece was created to decorate the home of an electronically savvy person. Through the exploration of conductive paint and the often overlooked beauty […]
After having some issues with my code, I rewired my bracelet to make sure all of the connections were strong and re-coded using arrays and for loops. I also added a Vibration Motor to vibrate at the ending time as an extra indicator. Please see the final images below, as well as my final code. […]
Below is my final presentation. Please also see my final paper.
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I decided to re-make the bracelet for my Light/Time project, using a shiny silver fabric (much easier to work with than real leather) and rethinking how to turn the timer on and off. Please see my previous post regarding the process of moving to a Lilypad, as well as my original post with my first […]
After great in-class critique and suggestions, and the generous donation of an old Apple PowerBook G4 by my teacher, I decided to attempt to repurpose an old computer. I began tearing apart the Powerbook using this tutorial. There is also this video, which I of course found after I had already disassembled my machine. There […]
For this week’s Physical Computing homework, we were to come up with ideas for our final projects. The first part of the final is to create the finished version of our Light and Time project (view posts here, here, and here). Here is the proposal presentation I put together. The second part of the final […]