Week 5
Kate's Physical Computing Journal
Some Thoughts on the 5th week of Physical Computing....
Still trudging along. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time with programming in basic. I feel confident in lingo but I have a really hard time using basic to effect thing in my own physical reality. I'm getting more comfortable with making circuits though...
http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~sermon/dream/
Telemetic Dreaming
One person lays on a bed in one room. In the second room a person lays on the opposite side of the bed. Each bed receives an image of the person laying on the bed that is in the other room. The people interact with the video version of the person who is now laying in bed beside them. There is a "dream scape" around them.
I found this link and just thought it was a beautiful idea. It is playing with the idea of telepresence. But what is really interesting is that the "real" person can interact with the "virtual" person. The real person can be fooled into forgetting that the person is not actually in bed beside them. And why a bed. Does it force a sense of intimacy? Does it make someone feel as if they are in a private space and not a public one? Does it allow people to believe in a different sense of reality?
http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~sermon/
More projects by Paul Sermon...some interesting stuff.
In the first step of this assignment
I got a full range with my potentiometer. When I added
a 220 resistor to the ground end my range became much smaller and closer
to the 1001 to 1023.
When I added that same resistor to the power my range became 0-47. When
I added a resistor
to both my range was 502 - 538.
For step two I used the same
code but I used a flex sensor which had a very small range. I'm still
working on getting a photocell to respond. For some reason I can't get
any variation in
the output.
For the third step my group
and I came up with a concept to make an octopus toy for
children. When the lights went off in a room we wanted the octopus to
light up. We ended up understanding how to use analog input but never
got the light function working quite correctly. Some pictures below (thanks
to idit).
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Following Tom's code I made
my servomotor work. I'm a little confused about what the minpulse
and maxpulse are referring too but I'm sure if I read the notes I'll be
able to figure that
one out.
After adding to the code I
was able to make a potentiometer effect the movement of the servomotor.
The weird thing was that it didn't move how I thought it was going to
move. I thought that by
turning the potentiometer up the servo would move faster and down the
servo would move slower.
What happened instead was that the servo only moved while I was moving
the potentiometer's dial
Otherwise the servo did not move at all. I definitely need to do more
work with servo's
before I will be able to use them in a project.
Make a system where people can leave behind mementos. They leave the actual piece but that piece becomes part of a visual display. Thinking in terms of cages...the object as a pet as a belonging. What we own...what we can leave behind.
Make a website with resources for people interested in technology and art. Won't loose all the good finds but also may make life a little easier on another explorer.