So this has been done for almost a week now, but here it is just the same — my oven prototype! The program, thanks to massive help from Amit and the DfC class, will now let users set the time and temperature from any keyboard with number key input. If I were to [...]
Seth and I have been talking about our next project for Sustainable Energy, and we’re thinking about building a flower that blooms when it’s under sunlight. Cute, huh? Anyhoo, we’re thinking it could be made out of or be surrounded by PV (solar stuff), and bloom (probably by servo or something) when it gets enough [...]
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I’ll fill in the details about it a bit later on, but for now, my presentation for Urban Computing is up here. I’ll give a full breakdown shortly.
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DSCN8103, by doryexmachina.
Nerds like nerdy cookies, what can I say?
So I’ve spent literally all day working on this oven design, and it’s looking cooler — except the code still doesn’t work. I spent a few hours trying to bugfix, and for every problem I though I’d fixed, I found new ones. A good coder I am not.
This is how the prototype looks as of [...]
As I keep plugging away at creating a user-test-able interface for my new oven design, I’ve changed things around qutie a bit. In some ways, I’ve ramped up (added more to the visualization, made the code a bit more sophisticated) and in some ways I’ve scaled back (the suggestions of my group to add [...]
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Yup, it’s midterms, by doryexmachina.
About two weeks before this semster started, I started having these incredibly strong pains in my stomach, and by mid-January I was having trouble getting out of bed. That’s not the point of this story — I was put on Prevacid for (assumedly) the start of a small ulcer, and I’m mostly-fine now.
The point, [...]
I’ve been working madly away on getting this oven prototype ready, and it’s come to my attention that I may have been going about this all wrong. I met with my wonderfully supportive group on Thursday (Allistar and Jane), and they suggested that perhaps my keypad approach wasn’t the best ever, and that maybe [...]
…and so far have been relatively unsuccessful. This was starting to bum me out a bit, so I took a walk — and saw that every other person here is on their laptop, madly typing into email and Adium windows.
At least it’s not just me.
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Posted 11 February 2007
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