Hi, guys.
If you want, since Andrew's space is full, you can host big files on my website for the time being - user is infodevice, password is devinfo, address is ftp.selfasbody.com - put files inside the info.selfasbody.com (feel free to make a directory for yourself)
they will be available online at http://info.selfasbody.com
(note that only one user at a time will be able to log in, so if you can't log in, someone else is probably uploading stuff) Continue
Hi, guys.
my documentation can be found here: http://void.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/infodevice/students/floratron9000/ (or linked, above)
However, as Andrew's share appears to be full right now, I've had to upload the movies elsewhere - they can be found here: http://selfasbody.com/infodevice/
Anyway… Continue
Added by Dan Bourke on November 12, 2008 at 1:03am —
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My servo motor just exploded, a little. That's inconvenient!
Fortunately, everything else is going pretty well, so I should have plenty of time to go and get a replacement in the morning. Still, this is not my favourite thing to have happened at midnight, ever. Continue
Added by Dan Bourke on November 5, 2008 at 12:18am —
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Here's a bunch of photos of how my project's been going, the last few weeks:
(please excuse the miscellaneous promo materials in the background, I needed something to cut, solder and glue on that wasn't my table)
Model two:
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Added by Dan Bourke on November 4, 2008 at 7:00pm —
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So, last week saw my original visualisation fail to work, meaning I need to start over again:
It also saw my sensor fail to work... meaning I need to start over again!
I thought I'd posted that video last week, but obviously I didn't.
Anyway!
New visualisation is going to be much simpler. Small levers! I can work with that.
Building a smoke detector from the ground up is interesting, but I think I can do it. I've got the theory down, anyway... practicalities are, as alway… Continue
Hi there! So, evolving out of my idea for air-quality measuring stations, and my interest in making invisible data visible, and my limitations as a creator of actual devices, and piggy-backing off an idea I had while discussing Kerry's talk, and thinking about what is persuasive to people, I've come up with this idea:
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I decided to do a crossfader, which would be useful for controlling the balance between two audio outputs in a stereo setup, or weighting inputs in a data monitoring situation, or various other things, rather than a simple brightness level.
As mentioned in the video, I tried doing this with the analog pins, which basically went from off to completely on in a very, very small range of the pot's movement, and, if I moved it very slightly, seemed to have another two middle-level brightnesses in th… Continue
Added by Dan Bourke on September 24, 2008 at 3:00am —
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I must have missed the secret word for this week, but here's my video anyway:
Here's another picture of the circuit, so you can see how it works (um, sort of).
Ok, sorry this took so long, slideshare seems to hate anything that's ever touched my laptop, and it took me a while to get over my annoyance and create a PDF version of the presentation to upload.
You can find it here.
Because it won't make any sense without my notes, you can also find my notes (which are incomplete, but contain the intro I skipped), here:… Continue
Added by Dan Bourke on September 6, 2008 at 1:25am —
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no narration, sadly. Should be fairly self-explanatory, however...
(since you can't read the screen, because, I guess, my laptop is too bright, here's a bit of explanation as to what happens)
putting in a digit will result in that many flashes. Putting in two or more digits will result in the appropriate number of flashes for each digit, in order, separated by a pause. The timing seems a bit off in the video, for some reason (youtube?) so it's actually kind of hard to see, here. You'll just ha… Continue
Ok, so I'm done - I'm not sure what we're supposed to post about it, given that we're not supposed to post our code (I think).
I recall Justin saying we were supposed to write it up like he'd shown us, but I don't remember what he showed us...
So, anyway, here's some things I used in the process of doing this:
a double barrelled if statement (if (a && b) {}) with a main condition containing the following:
a message to the terminal of a modified input value
a for loop based on a modifie… Continue
everyone loves a hello world program. This one goes in two directions, however, and neither of them are displayed as per a traditional hello world.
First up, a thing which monitors serial, and flashes an LED when there's serial communication. This one flashes once per character you stick in (usually). serial_out.pde
This one blinks for every ch… Continue
Added by Dan Bourke on August 13, 2008 at 11:02pm —
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One of the things I am interested in is wearable computing. I look forward to days when every item we wear can be used to tell us things, display information, talk to nearby people, etc.
Something that I saw a while back, and would really, really like to build a version of myself, sometime, is the 'feelspace belt', a belt of 13 sections, where the section most northerly vibrates constantly.
This gives the person who wears it an innate sense of direction which is above and beyond their normal loc… Continue
Hi, guys.
my documentation can be found here: http://void.arch.usyd.edu.au/~andrew/infodevice/students/floratron9000/ (or linked, above)
However, as Andrew's share appears to be full right now, I've had to upload the movies elsewhere - they can be found here: http://selfasbody.com/infodevice/
Anyway… Continue
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