Archive for the “Arduino” category
Mobile Media Assignment EX3A – public space media project
by adrianpark on February 22, 2011
The assignment: ASSIGN EX3A: Choose a public space media project (by an artist or designer other than yourself) to look at in class next week. It can be in any domain (public art, gaming, mobile services) but must use technology (…)
Sneak Preview
by adrianpark on November 30, 2010
I’ve just finished the bulk of the build of the physical component of my project piece for the upcoming exhibition. I’m so amped, stoked and all manner of other superlatives borrowed from surfer vernacular that I figured I’d post a (…)
Assignment: Counting a physical action from the real world
by adrianpark on November 5, 2010
The assignment brief is: Create a counting machine that uses a sensor input count a physical movement action from the ‘real world’. Include a physical/visual output which occurs after a certain, meaningful number of ‘counts’. I’ve been reading a lot (…)
Assignment: control the speed of DC motor with a sensor
by adrianpark on November 2, 2010
I had a temperature sensor in my Arduino box so decided to see if I could use it as a means to control the speed of the DC motor. It works – but not without some quirks! Below are some (…)
Using pointers in Arduino (C/C++) to pass variables by reference
by adrianpark on November 1, 2010
I was writing some code for an Arduino sketch and bumped my head against the issue of how to pass a variable by reference. I’m blogging the solution for future reference (mine and others).
Arduino Intervalometer Prototype
by adrianpark on October 27, 2010
Here are a few images and a video to start with – I’ll write up some documentation later.
Arduino 101
by adrianpark on October 22, 2010
The current Doing assignment is intended to introduce us to the joys of Arduino. We’re tasked with completing 3 tutorials from arduino.cc, then we have to think of a scale up/scale down mapping of what we’ve learnt and sketch it (…)