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 [...]
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!
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
+ [...]
I’ve been thinking further about how to make the “real life” prototype of the oven interface I’d thought up last week, and I spent some time last week/weekend playing around with the IPAC to expand on what we did in class (and it was a lot of fun, to be honest). Then, I sat [...]
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Just got back a bit ago from Habana Labs’ third workshop, and it freaking ruled. Jeff set up this great series with the help of Habana Outpost and Glide Design Studios (who [...]
So this semester’s internship set looks like it’ll work out amazingly — working for Rushkoff doing stuff that’s here, there and everywhere (and apparently having brunch in places that Willam Defoe frequents, as he sat behind me last week), and working for Vision Education & Media two days a week, teaching audio software to kids [...]
So, as it’s due in less than a week, Burton and I got back to working on our energy-from-door concept.
We read a few schematics, and figured out how to get a rectifier bridge going, so that we can get power out of two of the three coils of the stepper motor, and get a constant [...]
So last week I took a look at this stupid oven in my apartment, and figured that the best way to make it not-so-sucky would be to put a keypad into the interface (which would be pretty easy). Then I did a mock-up of my idea by sticking post-its onto the oven.
This week: programming [...]
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…or so the presentation was titled. Tonight’s DriveBy was a killer collection of ideas, projects and practices from ITP folks, and was honestly really inpiring. Took a bunch of notes, got [...]
