Instructions for this lab are available at http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/Electronics.
1) Measuring Voltage
I felt a little bit like one of the primates from 2001 during this part of the lab. I’ve never used a multimeter before, so I looked at How to Use a Multimeter from Make Magazine. I was still confused. Then I realized, duh! I need [...]
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” raises more questions for me every time I read it. For instance, what are the differences between mechanical and digital reproduction as far as Benjamin’s assertions go? How is a work of art different when it is meant for massive and immediate distribution vs. when [...]
My sketch for this week is viewable at http://itp.nyu.edu/~cab513/icm/week3/.
I made this movie in class with Lina and Neo.
Click to play
Taeki and I spent 11:10am to 12:10pm on Wednesday morning wandering through Washington Square Park and the surrounding area observing people interacting with technology. At first we were vigilant about recording every single person we saw, but eventually we were so overwhelmed that we needed to just start recording the bigger picture instead. At one [...]
This week I ran into another problem with my Arduino board. I hooked up the potentiometer according to the lab instructions, and it seemed to work well for the first few seconds:
Soon, however, I received an error message stating that there was too much power flowing through the USB port:
The LED began to flicker, and [...]
It would be easy to read this cautionary tale as some sort of premonition. Although the story was published in 1909, Forster could easily be writing a response to contemporary dependence on technology. What I find interesting, however, is that he is expressing such parallel fears to some contemporary concerns in response to technologies that [...]
This week Josh and I used Processing to create an animated drawing. Click to create bubbles, then watch them float: http://itp.nyu.edu/~cab513/icm/week2/.
Installing WordPress was easy for me, since I had helped a classmate through the process already. Getting it to look the way I want might be a different story, since I know I want it to look very different from this:
So, I downloaded and installed to themes to play with, Aeros and Aurora. Aeros was [...]