In the first week of the course I extended the circuit of the bike light chip onto paper electronics. I added two LEDs and an external switch. This was helpful to understand how the circuit works and how the chip is programmed, which again was necessary for the following project Flashy shoes.
Getting the Code right I spent a full day trying to synchronise the motion sensor and the sounds. This mainly meant trying to understand the example code for the MP3 shield, to figure out how to adjust it for my purposes. This was difficult because some commands and syntax were hard for me to understand. […]
I’ve started reading a lot about tracking motion, about playing sound files on Arduino and about similar projects. Here are some excerpts of my Work-in-Progress. Hardware Input: For detecting motion I started working with a PIR motion sensor (Noel has done a good description on it here). PIR stands for passive infrared. After calibrating in […]
I have chosen to change projects. The bike light was an interesting idea – But rather then starting an all new project, I decided to complete an existing one. “Cycle Pole” is a public design concept I developped about a year year ago. ——————- What it’s for: Accidents between cyclists and pedestrians are a much […]
( presentation) My motivation was a one-word-poem which I always wanted to materialize as an interactive installation. The romantic idea is that when you approach a person who has recently been deprived of her commitment towards another person, she immediately demonstrates an introvertive gesture closing her veil in front of her face. This is the movement I […]
I plan to make a mirror which can change the image to bigger or smaller , if your body leans towards to it or leans away. here’s some inspiration I will use distance sensor , pvc mirror soft material , syringes piston and servo motor here’s how concave mirror and convex […]
Breathing Light – Modular Lighting Unit Motivation Thinking about the responsive surface of the object and its function, base on my own perspective I think the function should work more directly connected with the surface materials. Recall the concept of “Kit of the no parts” that point out why all Consumer Electronics should be covered with a […]
As a final project I would like to work with Processing and a sound and frequency analyzer and then send the information to Arduino so that it can physically react with the space. The idea is that it will be a piece that can react to any kind of music, and by doing so […]
To learn how to connect physical objects with computers, we learned how to use Processing and Pure Data. For this exercise I decided to use Processing and draw a stroke with and input coming from stretch sensors that are read by Arduino and then send the signal to Processing. My idea was to create a […]
For our textile embedded electronics week I decided to do a simple experiment with fiber optics. I really liked the quality and texture of the light it emits when the sides of the fiber are scratched. More than a conceptual project, it was an experiment to try in one object a lot of possibilities of […]