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BurnMeBunny

Posted by bruzed on Mar 31, 2009 • (0)

This cute little blue bunny goes insane and flails his arms when it’s tummy is warm. It has 2 servo motors for the arms and a thermoresistor to sense the heat. Clay and me made this for a physical computing assignment.

Categorized as Fun Experiments, @Parsons, Spring09, Physical Computing, @Parsons, Spring09

Using an IR sensor to control LED’s and speaker

Posted by bruzed on Mar 31, 2009 • (0)

The IR sensor fades the LED’s in and out and changes the frequency sent to the speaker.

Tagged as arduino, breadboard, computation, LED, sound + Categorized as @Parsons, Spring09, Major Studio: Computation, @Parsons, Spring09

Using a POT to control 2 LED’s and a speaker

Posted by bruzed on Mar 26, 2009 • (0)

The POT fades the blue LED in and out, increases/decreases the blinking speed of the green LED and changes the speed and frequency of the sound on the speaker.

Tagged as arduino, breadboard, computation, LED, sound + Categorized as @Parsons, Spring09, Major Studio: Computation, @Parsons, Spring09

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Posted by bruzed on Mar 24, 2009 • (0)

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).

Categorized as Usability

Controlling the servo with a potentiometer

Posted by bruzed on Mar 24, 2009 • (0)

Circuit for controlling a servo motor with a potentiometer.

Categorized as @Parsons, Spring09, Physical Computing, @Parsons, Spring09

User testing: Tweetlite

Posted by bruzed on Mar 24, 2009 • (0)

I tested the Tweetlite on 2 potential users. They both thought the product was marketable, would appeal to the Twitter community and gave me some great feedback.

Tagged as arduino, computation, LED, passage of time, time piece + Categorized as @Parsons, Spring09, Major Studio: Computation, @Parsons, Spring09

Pulse Width Modulation with PIC

Posted by bruzed on Mar 20, 2009 • (0)

One of the spring break assignments for pcomp. Pulse Width Modulation with the PIC chip.

Categorized as @Parsons, Spring09, Physical Computing, @Parsons, Spring09

Tweetlite: A twitter visualization cube

Posted by bruzed on Mar 17, 2009 • (11)

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Tweetlite is a visual commentary on our relationship with online social networks. It is an ambient light that represents a pixel – the smallest unit of visual digital information.

This is represented in the form of a minimalist, 4″ white, plexiglass, cube that reads messages from a Twitter feed and displays them in Morse code.

Each message is displayed in a different color and makes for a great mood light. It has USB and power connectivity and comes with a program that is used to enter Twitter credentials to enable the data feed visualization. It needs to be connected to a computer with an Internet connection, via USB. The patterns and colors can be customized. Needless to say, it can be of great use to someone who can read, interpret or even want to learn Morse code.

It is powered by Arduino and Python. The code is based off of example found here. If anyone is interested in building one I can post a tutorial, let me know.

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