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The tree evolves…

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So i finally un-screwed my code and got the tri-color LED talking to Processing, which is right now telling it to change color every so often. This is very good. Right now it’s [...]

I may never need to buy a power supply again…

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So I emptied out all my junk drawers/bins/shelves at my apartment, and found that all the shit I’d been hoarding for years may finally come in handy. Broken printer? [...]

pComp Final – starting the tree

Okay, so my to-do list for pComp doesn’t look too horrible right now:

I’ve started to get this tree thing off the ground, first with a sketch:

Which is based largely on these two tree ideas:
[gem tree] and [wire bonsai]
Well, it looks pretty in code anyway.

Take it from me, LED’s just don’t understand…

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Learning Max/MSP. Click full size view to diggit all. Also, as you may note, Max has LED buttons in the software that can be “wired up” to blink when things happen in the [...]

Windows XP (tinyXP) up on my MBPro

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Windows XP (tinyXP) up on my MBPro, by doryexmachina.
GAH. Thought I’d never have to see the Blue Screen of Death on any computer of mine again, but [...]

Miniminiblinkyblinky!

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She works! My lil’ mini withstood its first (and second) test of blinky lighting, thanks to the diagram Arduino.cc put up and Jane Oh’s neato how-to.
Top-down view (notes on Flickr page):

It’s pretty much the [...]

pComp Final – Observations

So people like trees, it seems.
I’d spent this week observing trees, spaces without trees, and people’s opinions of trees. The latter actually proved the most fruitful, with
What I’d like to do is create something like this:
or

MiniMiniMiniMiniMiniMini!!!!

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Arduino Mini, by doryexmachina.
TEENSY ITTY BITTY MINIS!!!!
Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m way too excited about these lil’ buggers, but holy crap are they cool. And fast. And useful. And TINY!

Combine that with [...]

One day, two rivers

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Yesterday my CommLab group met to film the outdoor scenes for our two-minute movie (which are most of the scenes anyway), filmed in Cooper Park, which I believe is in [...]

Robots Robots everywhere!

ITP hearts the robots.
A woman from Honeybee Robotics just came here to talk about all the stuff she does, which includes robotic drilling devices for Mars rovers, fiberoptic sunlight transfers, and brainstorming how to get an egg across the world’s second largest canyon on its own, unharmed. Does it get cooler? I submit [...]