The Helper
The helper is an assistive technology for a person with muscular dystrophy who can not pinch. It is composed of an arm and a controller. The controller is composed of 2 round objects the control the arm sided to side and around itself. The controller has 2 buttons one to open and close the grabber ...
Pcomp Final Concept Drawing
The Helper is a assitive technology robot. The purpose of the robot is to be able to pick up and reach objects for individuals in wheel chairs. The project is composed of 2 parts one is the Helper robot that is able to reach and grab the objects. The other is the control unit. One ...
Physcomp Lab8 – Transistors and HBridge
This week we delt with tranistors and HBridge. The transistor help to control motors, lights, or objects that have a higher voltage that the Arduino cannot power. The Transistor has a Base, Collector, and Emitter. The base goes from a pin of the arduino. This acts like a switch for the object you are controlling. ...
PComp Midterm-MIDI Light Table: Making the table
For our physical computing midterm Julio Terra, Michael Martinez-Campos, and Myself created a MIDI based light table. We used LEDs in a gradient pattern and a puck like object with photocells to achieve this. The photocells pick up the brightness from the LEDs. The Photocells are connected to the Arduino. Through Processing and using the ...
Lab 7 – Serial Communication 2 and Handshaking
For this lab we were doing more advanced serial communication with the arduino and processing. I used 2 pins of an accelerometer and a pot. The hardest part of this lab is the handshaking aspect. The reason it is tricky is because the different types, punctuation and handshaking. The handshaking makes sure that the information ...
Observation: The Brita Filter
Observation. Pick a piece of interactive technology in public, used by multiple people. Write down your assumptions as to how it’s used, and describe the context in which it’s being used. Watch people use it, preferably without them knowing they’re being observed. Take notes on how they use it, what they do differently, what appear ...
Physcomp Lab6 – Serial Communication
Using Serial Communication with Arduino and Processing was not too bad. The arduino code is simple. We are using a Pot put in pin0 and doing a basic analogread. The import things about this whole lab is that you make sure you always close the serial monitor, because only one application could read the serial ...
Stupid Pet Trick: The Nurse Station
The Nurse Station is a beer nursing meter. It goes placed on a bar counter and is used to measure if the person who places their beer on the coaster has left their beer too long on the counter. Stupid Pet Trick: The Nurse Station from Zeven Rodriguez on Vimeo. Stupid Pet Trick: Internals from ...
Lab 4 Servo and Tone
The breadboard is wired with 2 photocells in series go to pin 0. The photocells give an average range in the resistance. Depending which photocell you choose it pushes the resistance either towards the ends of the range. They make sure that all the voltage does not reach the arduino. The speaker goes to pin ...
Lab 3 Working without Arduino
This lab was mostly to focus on building circuits with out the Arduino I started by first looking at my power adapter. The adapter I was using was Positive on the outside and Negative on the inside. The power adapter is connected through the breadboard to a 7805 5-volt voltage regulator which drops the 9v ...