Yesterday Yiyang and I presented Birdveillance for our final Physical Computing class. We’re proud of our work, but feel like we still have more work to do on this project, and hope we’ll get a chance to develop it for the winter show. TO DO LIST: ** install flash in head, tweak head & eyes […]
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Surveillance Bird is coming along after quite a lot of work, it’s not quite there yet but we’re on the right track. All of the tests we’ve done so far have indicated that the bird needs to look & act like a bird, inviting people to interact in a fun/fuzzy way. Otherwise people will think […]
Here’s my Audio Transformer so far. Source code is on github. More info to come!
Tonight I experimented with different types of motors while thinking about the conversations Yiyang and I have been having about our final project. After doing the two H-Bridge labs, I made this with a servo motor: I think this type of servo-motion will be perfect for the Surveillance Bird. We just need to get motors […]
My final project, “Audio Transformer,” will be a simple audio editor that functions in the browser. I’m designing for kids age 7 and up who have never worked with audio. The idea came from teaching afterschool music workshops, and seeing how frustrated kids get by the defacto freeware program Audacity. With so many features, Audacity can […]
What is the key to happiness? How do we find meaning in the chaos of life? And why do our best ideas comes when we least expect them? These questions are the domain of psychology theorist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. His answer derives from Flow, a concept he outlined in his 1990 book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal […]
Bird Surveillance System – a network of sensors hidden in tree-like areas, like birds, that observe you. When you rush by, they tweet one note and light up red. But when you stop to observe their presence, they cycle through a sequence/arpeggio of light and sound. There are three of them hidden throughout the space. […]
So much to play with this week! Here are my two favorite experiments. Bearpocolypse – loops through each pixel in the bear image, compares it to every other pixel, and changes each pixel based on “distance” of the RGB. source: http://itp.jasonsigal.cc/icm/pixels/bearpocalypse/bear.pde In Motion Dot-tector – built off of the Learning Processing Motion Sensor, and inspired by […]
The four chapters we read this week were very inspiring as I reflect on the experience of my digital music workshop. :: In “The DJ Factor,” Mike Challis describes a curriculum for at-risk 14-16 year olds in the UK who have not had any previous music experience. The key to his experience is to start from […]
To determine the actual amount of time it will take to make something, consider the rule of pi: multiply how long you think it will take by pi (3.14). This rule of pi is surprisingly accurate. -Dustyn Roberts, Making Things Move Yiyang and I made some good progress on our midterm project this week. We picked up a […]