Sometimes, I get jaded about technology. I see something blink or beep or run a complicated earth-saving algorithm, and I sigh. I wish I cared, but I can’t. Then, sometimes, I see something that shocks me back into being wowed. Writing a computer program that allows you to mouse-click a button [...]
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Posted 28 November 2007
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After bouncing back and forth with ideas for a few weeks, I made my final project proposal today in Computers for the Rest of You (slide deck here). I’ve been fascinated by the intersections between stress, paranoia and technology lately, and while some of my projects have been more practical (or at least serious), [...]
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Posted 21 November 2007
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Spent the past few days using KeyloggerX to record my typings for Computers for the Rest of You, and found out a few things, most notably that (A) I swear a lot, (B) I mistype a lot of things and (C) I use the apple-tab move a lot. None of this is particularly shocking to [...]
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Posted 06 November 2007
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Jenkins and I have been working for a few weeks on this bluetooth data logger idea, trying to capture and map the colors and movements of the day. We finished our first “real” prototype for the logger, which looked like this:
And here’s an initial mapping of the data:
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Posted 09 October 2007
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The NIME class and larger concept are chiefly what brought me to ITP (along with projects like Pac Manhattan and a fierce appreciation of blinky lights), and I’ve been looking forward to injecting my musical past to my nerdy work for well over a year. I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for [...]
Tom Jenkins and I spent some time this past week figuring out our plans to get our data logger concept off the ground, and so far, we’ve got the basics working. We’ve got an Arduino Mini reading values from a photocell and sending that through a Blue SMiRF Bluetooth module to a Nokia N80 phone [...]
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Posted 24 September 2007
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I have fallen for the forbidden fruit — cellphone apps and Java.
Part of our work in the Computers for the Rest of You class is to study that which we experience every day in ways that we aren’t fully paying attention to, studying what’s missing — that which we’re conscious for, in the (generally [...]
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Posted 11 September 2007
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We’ve been tasked to keep our ears open for a week, and think about how we or people we observe “use” music. This fits in quite nicely with both a personal project of mine and with my work with Tom Jenkins for Computers for the Rest of You, so here’s a big jumbled reply.
I’m [...]
