My Digital Sketchbook

Gordie Fuz: The Wireless IR Wonder Toy

Gordie Fuz is a wireless toy that uses IR to communicate with other IR devices. He can receive and transmit various data with every toy made in my Wireless Toys class at Parsons.

THE SPECIFICS:
Each person's toy was to have three buttons, each of which sent out different data when it was pressed. Your toy had to read and visually show which toy was sending data, determine if a button was being pressed, and which button (if any) on the emitting toy was pressed.

LED Lamp with Pulse Width Modulation & the Arduino

I created a lamp for the first project (placies) in Wireless Toys.

The bottom shade houses 10 RGB LEDs (controlled by three knobs and two switches located on a cube off to the side). Each knob is attached to a potentiometer whose value corresponds to the amount of red, blue or green light the LEDs emanate. The switches turn pulse width modulation and blinking on and off.

The shades are casted using Sorta Clear silicone. Below is a close up of the top shade.

The lamp in action:

Download the code.

Parsons Does the Sims::BEATBOXER

An image from our (Marcus Pingel, Cameron Brown, Eric Nunez, and me) interactive musical beatbox system based on the Sims. Parsons Does the Sims now showing at the Chelsea Art Museum until Saturday, May 12th.

Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd St., NYC (11th Avenue and 22nd Street)
Tues-Sat 12-6, Thurs, 12-8

Trauma Bear Wrap Up

User Testing

Trauma Bear Innards

Cardio Kodiak :: Nurse Photos

Check out the photo album for the nurse pics.

Download Air.jpg
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Download Defibrillator.jpg
Download Fool.jpg
Download GoodCall.jpg
Download GreatJob.jpg
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Download NextPatient.jpg
Download SideFirst.jpg
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Latest Cardio Kodiak Code

Download beararduino.pde

Did I Mention Wii Kick Ass?

For the latest developments from the haptics team (Mike Edwards, Carolina Torres, Cicek Neftci, and myself) go to Cicek's web blog.

Cicek's Blog

An Interesting Haptics Article

Haptic devices that fit the hand, like the force-feedback glove developed at Rutgers give the wearer a sense of touch, as if one is actually squeezing a ball or tracing an object.

www.memagazine.org
Read the article

Arduino Code

This is an adaptation of the Mike Edwards' Knight Rider 2 code from last week's lecture. Each button contains a different loop that controls how the LEDs flash.

int pinArray[] = { 2, 3, 4, 5};
int button;
int count = 0;
int timer = 20;

void setup(){
// we make all the declarations at once
for (count=0;count<4;count++) {
pinMode(pinArray[count], OUTPUT);
}
pinMode(button,INPUT);
}

void loop() {
if (button = 8) {
if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH)
{
for (count=0;count<4;count++) {
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], HIGH);
delay(timer);
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], LOW);
delay(timer);
}
for (count=3;count>=0;count--) {
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], HIGH);
delay(timer);
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], LOW);
delay(timer);
}
}
}
if (button = 9) {
if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH)
{
for (count=0;count<4;count++) {
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], HIGH);
delay(timer *10);
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], LOW);
delay(timer*10);
}
for (count=3;count>=0;count--) {
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], HIGH);
delay(timer*10);
digitalWrite(pinArray[count], LOW);
delay(timer*10);
}
}
}

if (button = 7) {
if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH)
{
digitalWrite(2, HIGH);
delay(timer *5);
digitalWrite(2, LOW);
delay(timer*5);
digitalWrite(4, HIGH);
delay(timer *5);
digitalWrite(4, LOW);
delay(timer*5);
digitalWrite(3, HIGH);
delay(timer *5);
digitalWrite(3, LOW);
delay(timer*5);
digitalWrite(5, HIGH);
delay(timer *5);
digitalWrite(5, LOW);
delay(timer*5);
}
}
}

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