Monthly Archives: December 2012

beat_gloves_ proto

The drum gloves comes from the idea of converting movements and sounds from physical and electronic instruments into a portable ‘surface free’ sound producer. Instead of hitting a specific surface with your fingers that outcomes in some type of sound, the  drum gloves will provide you with surfaces will be on your fingers. The concept [...]

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Final project assignment

Create a physically interactive system of your choice. Please, document your work thoroughly online as you go. Include details of all phases of the project. So teachers can see your progress and evaluate your work better.  Include a project summary as well, explaining what the system you built is, what it does, and what purpose [...]

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Sound Fungus

final from Arfurqan on Vimeo. video link:http://vimeo.com/54723387 The aim of the project was t produce sound by using light as a stimulus. In Arduino language we are using  five peizo as actuator and photo light resistor as external sensor.  Below is the testing image and bread board view of the circute. We gave it a fungus mushroom [...]

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The dear drawing machine is almost there..

So now the dear drawing machine is alive, watch her in action below. The darker the light the higher the resistance and thus the faster the speed of the motor. This machine is designed to be hanged on the wall to react to people passing by. If you passed by, or stand in front of [...]

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final: north bracelet

Here’s the final prototype of north bracelet. During the process I’ve learned a lot about electronics (thanks for Alex). Here are some core hints: For this application input was tilt compensated compass (CMPS10), outputs were 3 high luminosity leds. First prototype was made on breadbord to check how it works and to program arduino fio. [...]

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