Day: October 3, 2012
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Let’s get ready to RUUUMMMBLE!
A few assignments ago in physical computing, I had the idea to make a thumb wrestler with a homemade force detector. I’ll talk about that more below. Ever since that lab, I’ve used what I’ve learned to build onto that project adding LEDs, a servo, and a piezo buzzer. Here’s a short video demonstrating the…
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Processing catch-up post
I haven’t posted any of my ICM homework to my blog yet, so this post will take care of it in one shot! Here are a few of the projects I’ve worked on recently. Sparks Move the mouse inside the window to create sparks! Equalizer The inspiration for this one was an equalizer. I ended…
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The Phantom of the Arm
I read an excerpt of Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald D. Hoffman that spoke to the fact that there is evidence our brain constructs what we see and touch. The chapter discussed medical studies that were performed on patients who had limbs amputated but could feel the sensation that the appendage…
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Physical Computing hits and misses
Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (and misses) -Tom Igoe I loved looking through this list of different types of physical computing projects. Some were very inspiring (mechanical pixels, fields of grass), and others I’ve seen many many times. what I really like about both the mechanical pixels and fields of grass are the scale and response given…