Monthly Archives for September 2015
Pcomp, Wk 4: Labs
So I did the servo motor lab again and got it to turn! yay! What I took away from lab is our ability to use Arduino libraries, as well as a growing curiosity about controlling the position of an object. I was so … Continue reading
ICM, Wk 4: Here We Go Again
This week, our assignment was to take a previous drawing and try to use the new object and function formatting to clean it up. I thought back to my Sol LeWitt drawing from the first week and I wondered how I … Continue reading
PComp, Wk 4: Simple Application – Drawing Machine
INTRO As I mentioned in my lab blog post, I was really intrigued by the possibilities of controlling an object’s motion. When I saw the arms of the servo motor rotate, I started thinking about using it to create a kind of drawing machine. … Continue reading
Project Idea: Social Media Greek Chorus
How does twitter/social media act as a collective greek chorus for current tragedy // sound or video installation that somehow combines tweets into a script //perhaps a live performance? How do we envision ourselves as the protagonist of our own … Continue reading
Pcomp, Wk 3: Application – Heart Rate Monitor
This week, we finally got to try some basic codes and put our arduino into action! Taking the basic circuits we learned last week, we learned how to have the arduino take input through digital and analog means and then … Continue reading
Pcomp, Wk 3: Blog Post – Interactive Technologies
I think…I think I’m still figuring out exactly what interactive technology is. Like Crawford says, it can exist along a spectrum. You initiate an action, an object responds, etc. So what, exactly, could qualify for this assignment? Honestly, the first … Continue reading
ICM, Wk 3: A simple game that turned out to be pretty complicated
I’ll be honest, the last thing I want to do is write a blog post about this week’s assignment. What grief it gave me! Before I write any more, I want to direct readers to my repository of code: https://github.com/zoebachman/icm/tree/week3 … Continue reading
Sound and Vid, Wk 2: Sound Assignment
So for our sound assignment, Dana and I went through several ideas before landing on the right fit. We thought about doing recording soon-to-be extinct sounds in New York, either as locations that would one day succumb to rising sea … Continue reading
Pcomp, Wk 2: Questions for Next Class
Says that sensors attach to metal pins of a micro-controller, but with arduino we attach sensors to the breadboard – correct? Wait, so what I thought was a microcontroller is a development board and they’re not the same? Re: “You … Continue reading
PComp, Wk 2: Practical Application – Switch
I was really stuck on what to make with a switch. I consider myself an ideas gal but maybe there’s something intimidating that I find about all this or the ideas I did have seemed to silly or impractical or … Continue reading