So. At this point, we have a stepper. We know that it outputs up to 35V or so when spun really fast. We made an LED blink (when spinning gently — no sense in killing an innocent light), we tested voltage in an open circut… and now we’ve tested a short circuit.
Burton [...]
So, I did this at the same time as my first post about the oven’s operation, but I wanted to do a better look at it, so I read up on it a bit before re-posting. Here’s the re-do:
Analysis — this is much like the alarm clock analysis as well:
Honestly, the process is frustrating, [...]
Okay, actually, it didn’t quite work out like that at all, but here is the almost-a-week-overdue story of how I was tasked to make an improv project for my Networked Objects class (which involved monkeys, pudding, lentils, cups, etc), how it all kinda worked, and then how it all mostly sucked in the end.
I started [...]
What’s “the new black” now? The answer is just a click away!
DIAGRAM :: LeisureArts
So in this week’s assignment, we were tasked to examine a digital appliance that we deal with, analyze its usability, and suggest improvements. The example we looked at in class was an alarm clock, but as I don’t have one (I’m the cellphone alarm type), I started looking around at other things in my [...]
How much energy could be gathered from the everday open-and-closing activities of doors on the ITP floor — without people having to change their daily routines one bit?
This is the “stepper” we borrowed at first. Only problem — not a stepper. It’s a DC motor. Got some nifty voltages out of it, and managed to [...]
So the concept is progressing: I’m making a clock for the blind and not-so-blind. I’ve started (and at this point shoud be almost finished with) a hacky-but-functional mockup of a timepiece that can be used by those with visual impairments. The basic concept is that it works like a pin screen — pins [...]
My birthday was this past weekend. Had a nice lil’ celebration, ate wonderful foods and napped. Rocked out at HiFi for the second time in as many days (enough of that for a while, thankyouverymuch). Talked to the fam and the friends in far-off lands. A really nice weekend, in all.
But.
My sister, for my birthday, [...]
As I continue to be bowled over by the beginning of classes, it’s time to start chronicling what I’m working on, so here we go.
The first assignment for Designing for Constraints involved designing a clock for the blind. Of course, there’s a ton of issues with that assignment, in its wording at the very [...]