The breadboarded monster has finally been turned into a functional prototype!
The lm386 circuit I’d mentioned a bit ago here did the trick, so I just transferred the whole thing to a breadboard and slapped an Atmega168 (bootloaded with Arduino) under it. The unit has the full mic circuit on top (with mic and warm white [...]
Mic experimenting has been interesting, and by interesting I mean a lot of me cursing at circuitry. I’ve been tinkering with a few options, trying to find a light-weight circuit suitable for use in a tiny portable device. Finally, I have a circuit that’s working well for me, and it’s more or less this:
(Thank you [...]
Holy crap! Socialbomb’s on BoingBoing!
It’s a sweet piece, and it was mega-nice of all the BB folks to post it. The comments are actually shockingly intelligent too — seems like people kinda get what we’re going for, and that RULES.
Edit: And now Kotaku!!
The past few days have been spent hunkered over a table in the pComp lab, trying to find a way to get the simple sound monitor prototype up and running — and I think I’m finally there. Or, at least, I’ve got a start. I’ve ordered some new parts, which I have to [...]
So the ETech video coverage is starting to roll in, mostly talking about the brilliant discussions and presentations made by the likes of Yahoo!, Stamen, Matt Webb, Monochrom, the Make folks, etc. So, imagine our surprise when we saw THIS:
Hey! It’s us! And the live-action Socialbomb game at the ETech [...]
…and the prototyping continues. Given that I managed to scamper off to San Diego for a week and am woefully behind where my work plan says I should be, I’m spending this week in the lab —I really want to get a proper audio circuit set up.
Right now I’m working on getting some mic circuits [...]
It’s fun in my thesis that I get to assemble other people’s kits, evaluate them for usability, and then abuse the final product for my own methods.
(Note to self: find job in R&D in near future.)
I started by ordering a pile of kits from the folks at Anykits — they have outstanding prices and a [...]
So while I’m getting the circuit worked out for the initial sound-sensing object for my thesis, I made a quickie Processing app that displays most of what I want the sound sensor to show. Right now, it just fades slowly when it’s clicked (showing how it would react if it picked up sounds), which [...]
So while I’ve bantered about the process of making the new SB 2.0 units and the things we’ve done with them, I haven’t given many nice images of them. So, let’s fix that:
Yay pretty pictures! The Documentation Station recently put up on the floor at ITP (a nice camera, a great lightbox, some [...]
So I was watching all these people run around the floor at ETech, and it was really fun to watch their interactions from a distance. Sometimes people were really excited to talk and share, sometimes they hid behind their laptops but seemed eager to start a conversation, and sometimes they busily ran from place to [...]