Happy Feedback Machine by Ahn Nguyen What a fun idea! It’s immediately attractive with it’s overload of buttons, switches, cool interfaces, but I couldn’t help but want it to do something. I do realize that doing something would defeat it’s purpose of acting as an artist statement/ sculpture rather than a functional design object. However, with […]

Final Result: — Process: For this week’s more open ended assignment, I was excited to do something fun and interactive! I thought about a couple of ideas, but eventually landed on doing a wheel of fortune spinner. Except that instead of spinning for money, the pointer would land on a random activity that the user […]

Labs: Analog Output Motor Below is a video of my results after following along the “Analog Ouput: Motor Control“. Instead of using the wind motor, I used a motor I already had (unfortunately it doesn’t have any cool tissue or fan on  it so the motion of the result is not too clear). However, I […]

One of my most treasured place in Manhattan is the Bobst Library, especially it’s dead-quiet graduate student working area. It is the best place for writing and blogging, as I am doing now. This means that I need to pass by the common eating and drinking area of the basement floor in order to get […]

Lab 2: Digital Input and Output with an Arduino I first followed along with the “Digital Output” video.   Next, I wired up the Arduino with a pushbutton, making sure that the red jumper goes to the 5V and the black goes to the Ground. On the right, is the version with 2 LEDs and […]

For this project to make our own switches, I initially thought about using the RGB LED (the one with 3 legs and one leg for ground). I remember seeing/ using this LED in the Arduino Uno kit, and I was tempted to use it again for this.     At first I wired it with […]

Lab: Setting up a Breadboard I followed along the three examples to find out if the LED would light up. I tried to guess first, but before checking the answer I tried to set the circuit it up myself. Below are 3 examples. Answer 1: Answer 2 (the one that doesn’t light up): Answer 3 […]

Lab: Soldering I followed the same steps as the “How to Solder Video” – First, I got all the materials listed in the ready. I used a potentiometer I found in the shop. – I used the wire cutters to strip a 1/4″ of insulation off the wire. Then I threaded the wire into the holes […]