Month: October 2018

Lab Review & Prototyping Tips

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Prototyping Methods & Tips 

This week we watched videos about serial communication as well as videos to help us with the fabrication side of things. I learned lots of great tips from the past residents as well as excited to try both the acrylic enclosures and Tom Igoe’s idea of lasercutting mat board as a quick solution to keeping things organized in the prototype stage without sacrificing a week to build a box. Instead, it allows you to problem solve/user test in the interim – later developing a final box that best suits your project. I also had no idea you could twist wire like in Bendetta’s tip, and will take to heart what Luisa learned about wire flexibility and UI. Will make sure to use illustrator to help me imagine my UIs

 

I also really appreciated Tom’s ideas about how we have to shift our thinking when making interactive art – the idea to let the viewer / user interpret the work. [ Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen ]

 

Lab Review

This week I revisited some of the past labs, including Analog/Digital inputs & outputs. This Friday, in addition to meeting with my super fun mid-term partner  – I hope to continue to the lab review from this week, starting with Sensor testing into Serial communication labs. I also want to continue with the tone lab playing with FSRs + Flex sensors. Looking forward to the Programmable Air flyby this friday too 🙂 ❤

 

 

 

 

 

Shooting iBracadabra

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My group members Jaekook, Hayk and I shot footage for our iBracadabra video for Audio & video. It was a fun learning experience, as we learned a lot about trial and error with lighting, sound, camera settings and framing. We used the documentation area on the floor to shoot, which worked great from 8am to around noon but as you would anticipate became much louder with softlab sounds & students throughout the day.

I think we’ll have to try to incorporate the floor noise into it / blend it in with sound design maybe? To help with the floor noise, we ended up using the Sennheiser omnidirectional headset mic for our Stefan character.  We’ll need to make sure to split the audio into stereo & clean it while working with the rough cut.

 

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We ended up getting an all black puppeteer suit for our AI / SmartMagic character that performs all the magical functions. Characterizing the magic behind our technological black boxes

 

more soon ❤

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Lab 5: Tone Output Using an Arduino

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Why not use analogWrite()?

When you use analogWrite() to create pulsewidth modulation (PWM) on an output pin, you can change the on-off ratio of the output (also known as the duty cycle) but not the frequency. If you have a speaker connected to an output pin running analogWrite(), you’ll get a changing loudness, but a constant tone. To change the tone, you need to change the frequency. The tone() command does this for you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(lower volume – very dissonant ❤ ❤  )