Lab Rundown
This weeks Electronics lab is broken down into 5 smaller labs:
Vimeo tutorials in this album, group, and channel
Month: September 2018
Voltage Regulator
Multimeter: Measuring Continuity
Multimeter: Measuring Voltage
Avalanche Analogy
To understand the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance, imagine an avalanche of snow on a mountain. The height of the mountain is analogous to the voltage; the higher the mountain, the more potential energy the falling material has. The amount of snow and rocks in the avalanche is analogous to the current. And the steepness of the mountain is analogous to the resistance: the steeper the mountain, the less it will resist the flow of the snow and rocks. We’ll define this a bit more formally below. — ITP Physical Computing — Electricity: The Basics
Intro to Schematics
Schematic diagrams are diagrams of circuits that represent the electrical relationships between the components in the circuit. A schematic doesn’t always show the spatial arrangement of the components; it’s arranged so that you can best understand the flow of the electricity.
How to Solder
Liminal Spaces: User Testing
We did a user test run of our audio walk Liminal Spaces
User Feedback
Likes:
- that the first action loosened you up to be more open to the whole experience
- that you flow throughout the space more fluidly without holding a physical thing like a map
- quote content
- opening door into the outside effect
- really liked the Laozi quote
Suggestions:
- add more space to the actions:
- find your way into the lobby
- grab the handrail and carefully lean over to look downstairs
- drift towards the exit doors
- add transitioning /sonic cue into the Solnit reading – like an opening door, maybe ambient sound like Brent’s architecture quote?
- bump up the levels of outdoor crescendo section
- more detail in description / context clues of where the handrail is / had started towards the retractable cloth Queue way
Comm Lab: Audio & Video: Soundwalk Planning
Soundwalks
Our first assignment in CommLab: Audio + Video is to develop a 3-5 min sound walk with our group after each having experienced various ones in the city. My two group members, Brent Bailey and Mary Notari, experienced Passing Stranger: East Village Poetry Walk.
They both really liked how each character voice became associated with a specific kind of content in the walk. One woman, whenever you heard her voice, you knew she was giving you walking directions, due to the context of that being the only time you would hear her. We thought it might be nice to try and incorporate that strategy into our walk as well.
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