My final project has taken many forms and shapes over the course of the month. I think I was just super eager to tackle four of the ideas I’ve been sitting on for a year that I had trouble committing to them which caused a couple bumps in the road. I wanted to use Cyrus … Continue reading Final Project
I’ve been focusing on two major systems: the material and the behaviour. Materials. I’ve switched to the stepper motor, mounted underneath my objects to fan things open and closed using springs and rubber chords to retract them. I like the stepper motor much more than the servo motor because the torque and the strength is … Continue reading Progress
The serial labs were super interested and have opened up a whole new level of interaction that I’ve implemented for other classes, particularly culinary physics which was surprising. I’ll post a video of that project here when it’s complete. Continue reading Serial Labs
Forgive me for what might be a bit of a rambling description of what I’d like to do in my final… SOME CONTEXT First, a little context might help. I’m very interested in the human act of managing mood and emotion in an attempt to create a level, positive or perhaps neutral emotional stasis. When … Continue reading Final – Kind Of Like A Game…
Lab: Using a Transistor to Control High Current Loads with an Arduino This lab helped us manage higher power supplies to control motors with a transistor. I’ve done something like this before but I’ve never seen code written straight to a transistor before. I really like this approach! Lab: DC Motor Control Using an … Continue reading WK 9 – Motors
IDEA: Mary and I made a witch’s cauldron that acted as a kinetic prop for a small skit about teaching the room how to cast a spell. We wanted it to be a little goofy so we used cups on sticks, connected to sensors to plunk the ingredients into the cauldron. We had some loop … Continue reading Halloween Project
*** NOTE for Tom Igoe, if you’re reading this*** This project was for Fabrication but it carried a lot of the same principals that we cover in Physical Computation so I’ve posted it on my pCom blog as well. For this assignment, I decided to execute an idea that I’ve had for a couple of … Continue reading Lost & Found Bots
** Note ** Ben Light, if you’re reading this, I made this project for PCom but there are a lot of parallels to this week’s Fab assignment so I’ve shared it to my Fab blog as well. This was originally for Tom Igoe to read. Hopefully my other Fab enclosure project comes together tonight! Moving to … Continue reading the small victories box
This week we are supposed to catch up on any labs that we haven’t done. I’ve gone back through the weeks and I think I’ve completed all the labs up to this date. Here are the last couple that we covered last week in class. In this lab, done during class, we looked at using … Continue reading Catch Up
Lab 2: Digital Input and Output with an Arduino Lab 3: Analog in with an Arduino Lab 4: Servo Motor Control with an Arduino Lab 5: Tone Output Using an Arduino Lab 6: Sensor Change Detection I really enjoyed this one! IDEA FOR PRACTICAL APPLICATION I think that this would … Continue reading Inputs & Outputs
ASHLEY JANE LEWIS 