We had our first meeting today.
Min, Todd, Mike, Ed and I at 12Noon in the ITP lounge.
Pretty good chemistry, and yes, it is hard to sustain a tighter focus with 5 people.
We are taking Tom’s advice. This week in observations we’re going to be working as one group.
Next week after observations, we’ll be two […]
Analog Out.
By connecting a serial cable from the PIC, we are able to have the PIC communicate with the PC (this will come in handy later on). There is a program called hyperterminal, which we were introduced to, in last week’s lab that aids us in debugging and reading the analog in values from […]
Analog signals are ones that are gradual as opposed to discrete (digital). In the simplest words that I can understand it is that one can think of a light switch (on/off) as being a digital system, where as a light dimmer (on/off/low/high/) as an analog one.
The usefulness and the trickiness of interfacing […]
So Last week we were working with Analog In and I was really having a hard time with it.
A couple of things that I noticed about my process.
A lot of this stuff is really, really another language for me.
Tom goes over stuff in class - and it makes sense to me. But then I […]
Benjamin is writing in a time responding to the two great ideological movements of the later 20th century: Facism and Communism. He is setting up a rubric to look at history, political events and cultures relationship to technology and society.
He says that Facism is a system that attempts to utilize all of a societies […]
Marianne asked us to look for manipulated images.
I did a search on google for photoshop and came up with some common forms of image manipulation.
Color Correction:
common in landscape photos.
Scaling:
Used to make people thinner(female models and celebs), taller, and better looking.
And then there is outright fabrication of content:
Like here and in less obvious ways.
Subtle changes […]
In order for there to be any interactivity, there needs to be actions sensed and a way for the device to make decisions based on the actions (input and output). The most basic form of decision making is that of a mechanical switch — a switch gives a user/ or a cuircuit a choice […]
The first week we covered the basic concepts of electricity and Ohm’s Law. I’ve been struggling with understanding these ideas for a while now, and this was the first time that things began to crystallize for me — that the circuit is a relationship. Voltage, resistance and Current are all bound together by […]
Dan introduced classes to us this week. The metaphore he used was a ‘blueprint’. OOP is something I’ve been trying to warp my head around for a while. It’s a total shift in thinking about how to program things. Also the notion of event based programming (which you see in Flash […]