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The Swingy Thingy (A Media Controller)
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The Swingy ThingyTM media controller was born out of the imaginations of Matt Ganucheau, Molly Schwartz and I. It originally started out as a sort of reverse zoetrope, having the user walk around the controller and moving the sound and video along with him or her. After much debate of what content to use and [...]
Tone Lab
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First off, this was a bit of an exercise in figuring out how to use the proto-shield correctly and I’m glad I did. The proto-shield will make everything a little easier and a little more compact. When I first ran the tone lab circuit, the speaker was super low with the 10K Ohm resistor between [...]
Creepy Zombie-esque Handshake Machine
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After many conundrums and failures: figuring out what to use for a counterweight because the rubber hand was so heavy servo with too little power more powerful servo taking too much power from the arduino following that, using USB AND an external power supply, finding out that I didn’t give the breadboard and arduino a [...]
Week 3 – Electronics
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After finishing this lab, I was pretty sure I understood. Now that I’m putting this blog post together…I’m not sure this is true. Well…here we go. (just a note, pictures have an analog multimeter, but I redid the lab with a digital multimeter for better readings). Step 1, Measuring Voltage: Step 2, A Basic LED [...]
Analog I/O…the best kind of I/O
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I started with the basics…potentiometer, LED. Go me. I borrowed a Piezo speaker from a friend and then I turned my circuit into a bit of a synthesizer with minimum functionality. I replaced a resistor with a photoresistor. The potentiometer seemed to have a sort of phaser effect on it, while the photo resistor changed [...]
Fantasy Device, though maybe not so fantastical
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Bright headlight notifier Last time I drove down from Syracuse (about a 5 hour trip), I had the privilege of having around 30 cars either follow me or coming in the opposite direction with their brights on. I need a way to notify these jerks to turn their brights off. My plan is a transmitter [...]
Sensor Walk
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Being that my neighborhood is fairly uninteresting and low-tech, I decided to walk around astor place and lafayette. starting out with the basics… All in all, it was a pretty varied find. Plenty of good stuff.
Phys Comp Week 1 – Lighting LEDs with Switches
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The original assignment was to light up an LED with the arduino and if a button is pressed (the switch is closed), switch to another LED. So this is the progression of that circuit.Now here’s a video of the final result. In an effort to see what else I could do with this, I thought [...]