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 […]

Reflections on “The Art of Interactive Design” by Chris Crawford The quote “interactivity is superior to all forms of human expression in one way: it engages the human mind more powerfully than any other form of expression” makes a lot of sense. Interaction grabs our attention the way the way no other form of communication […]