March 2012 archive

Creativity Necklace – Communication From A Distance

My Inspiration Dedicated to my little sister, Carillon, in hopes of enabling us to better inspire one another with our shared creativity. Components • 2 pen/pencil encasings (one for her, one for me) • 2 necklaces w/ RGB LEDs, power sources, and a Wi-Fi transceiver (one for her, one for me) Concept Each of us …

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BrainSYNC – Neurofeedback vs. Social Media

For the social media project I attempted to find a way of incorporating my own personal research of EEGs and Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) into an application in the field of social media.  In order to design this application, I assumed that users would have access to personal EEG devices that would be able to …

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very cool bbc documentary

also, came across this bbc documentary over the break. it’s made by adam curtis and raises some very interesting questions regarding how we define nature and humanity with technology and technological terms. link below. http://vimeo.com/27393748

Interaction Over Distance – Empathonic -Interface Mock Up

I’ve retitled my project Empathonic, a combination of Empathetic and Bionic. I’ve spent a lot of time adjusting interface and working on patching the Pulse Sensor to OpenFrameworks where I’m working. Wireless hopes are a bit foiled at this point, I need several parts I don’t currently have (little things like male pin headers, etc), …

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Communication Over A Distance, Part 3

Just realized how challenging the feedback/drawing coding is going to be for this project. Need to implement some kind of control theory – yikes. The hurdles to overcome are as follows: With only eight LED indications there are only a total of 16 directions I can direct the user. Need to break the drawing into …

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Interaction over distance…process

So after many thoughts and trials , I decided to use twitter… again to create the communication system! In my first project , the tweet antenna , I figured out how to use this system, but only when it comes to sending the tweet. That task was overall simple to do. However , I discovered …

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Interaction Over Distance First Iteration

Arduino + 2 lonely chickens = Feeling Presence with light and sound  

Distance Interaction Project – ‘vidshare’ wireframes

I have moved from concept and sketching to building out wireframes for the site, which I am calling vidshare. These are very down and dirty wireframes, and I hope to be able to refine some components, but the core concept is illustrated. There are many more pages I would like to wireframe, but for now …

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Communication Over a Distance – Midweek Progress

I’ve been building the maze for the last couple of days, and since I’m still trying to get in more work done to refine it, this update will be brief, but here are the photos of my progress and work so far. I’m going to post some more recently updated screenshots of the maze later …

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Communication Over A Distance, Part 2

After some consideration I have decided to redesign my pen as a Ouija style apparatus. I have also started testing the trackball-feedback circuit. Videos below.