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Daily Archives Tuesday, February 2007

Wrap-up — Kinetic energy from the sliding doors

As I’d mentioned here earlier, Matt Burton and I had spent the past three weeks working on this idea we’d had for harvesting the kinetic energy used to slide the doors on the ITP floor back and forth.  As nearly all the classrooms on our floor have big glass sliding doors, we figured we’d be [...]

Posted 06 February 2007 § ITP Projects § Sustainable Energy ‡ Comments (0) °

The oven program as it progresses

The initial mock-up in Photoshop:

The way the actual Processing program looks:

The Processing program still doesn’t work as well as I’d like, but it’s something, at least. Progress is good!

Posted 06 February 2007 § Designing for Contraints ‡ Comments (0) °

Oven prototype in Processing

Working more on getting the keypad program to work. I had to map out every key’s value, and on the keypad I’m using:
1 = 97
2 = 98
3 = 99
4 = 100
5 = 101
6 = 102
7 = 103
8 = 104
9 = 105
0 = 96
. = 110
num lock = 12
/ = 111
* = 106
- = 109
+ [...]

Posted 06 February 2007 § Designing for Contraints ‡ Comments (0) °