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SOCIALBOMB FTW!!

It is with incredible pride (and about equal parts shock and bewilderment) that I report that Socialbomb is the winner of NYU Stern’s Business Plan Competition! Out of the initial 155 teams that entered, Adam Simon, Scott Varland, Mihir Dange and I took on the last three on April 25 at the competition finals [...]

¶ Posted 27 April 2008 § ITP Projects § Spring 2008 § Tech and Culture ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ITP, socialbomb

Boards are here!

Advanced Circuits is absurdly fast. I placed the order halfway through Monday and the boards showed up on Wednesday morning. I haven’t tested them yet, though I see at least one obvious goof on my part, so we’ll see how they work.
Updates to follow.

¶ Posted 17 April 2008 § Thesis ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ITP, pcb, Thesis

Soundbox prototype testing

I took the lil’ Soundbox around the floor with me for user testing this weekend, but prior to that I got a pretty good demo of it in use. The mic does a pretty good job of picking up different kinds ofsounds from all around the room, and the light responds accordingly.

Close-up clap demo [...]

¶ Posted 02 April 2008 § Thesis ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ITP, light, prototype, sound, soundbox, Thesis

Soundbox prototyping

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 [...]