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In this week’s Physical Computing lab, we learned how to power a DC motor using a transistor. I wired up my Arduino and motor following the schematic in the lab documentation exactly:

The connectors on the DC motor are extremely fragile.  I managed to break one off accidentally, so I had to borrow Tim’s motor.  [...]

I worked with Tim and Liesje yesterday on our Physical Computing midterm, the Voodoo Bear, which is a bit like Frankenstein’s monster, built from the shell of a Build-a-Bear and various wires, sensors and other components.  The bear will move in reaction to human actions on a connected Processing program or through triggering sensors built [...]

In this week’s lab, we learned about Serial Duplex and continued to learn more about how to get Arduino and Processing to talk to each other.
In my spin on the lab, I hooked up 2 potentiometers through the Arduino to control the frequency and panning of a sine wave in Processing that is manifested on [...]

I worked on this week’s lab with Meredith.  First we set everything up as specified in the lab.  No real problems, pretty straight forward as the video below shows.

Then we wanted to visualize the signal from the serial in a more personal, creative way, so I adapted the big orange circle and blue background from [...]

Week 4 of Intro to Physical Computing @ ITP involved learning about analog output on the Arduino microprocessor and getting familiar with servo motors.
Physical Computing Week 4 - Evil Servobot from lee-sean on Vimeo.
I decided to take a riff on the lab assignment and attempt to create pure evil with limited resources (and skills for [...]