Archive for April, 2009
Bestiary Sketch (aka Menagerie, Round 3)
Bryan Lence and I revisited our A to Z midterm to create another version of the creature maker. We kept our foundation of the context-free grammar, but we altered our template for the images. Instead of layering transparencies in set positions, we anchored each image to a specific variable associated with another image (i.e. the [...]
Fall Classes
Hooray! Fall course schedules are out! I’m looking forward to my classes: Design for UNICEF with Clay Shirky, Cabinets of Wonder with Nancy Hechinger, Crafting with Data with Rob Faludi, and Visual Communication with Katherine Dillon.
5000 Dogs in the Clone Lab
I chose to revisit the Animal as Object assignment for my final project in Animals, People and Those in Between. Instead of really focusing on Mira this time, however, I decided I wanted to convey how overwhelmed I was by the number of dogs supposedly used in the lab that cloned the first dog: 5000. [...]
Visualizing Arduino Survey Results with Circos
Since I used a free account with SurveyMonkey to conduct my survey of Arduino usage patterns, I’m unable to download the data and easily manipulate it. I find reviewing survey results on the site a little unwieldy, so I uploaded the results of my first question (How many Arduino boards do you own?) to Circos, [...]
Arduino Lifespan Survey
As noted on the Arduino blog, I’m gathering some usage data to support a Life Cycle Assessment of the Duemilanove. The results I receive will help me to determine functional units and usage hours for the analysis. Arduino fans, please complete this short survey (now closed– please see update below) if you have a spare [...]
LCA of Materials for Intro to Physical Computing
After some serious thought about my final project for If Products… I’ve decided to drop the modern heirlooms project. It’s just not well-defined enough to be successful during the short time span between now and the end of the semester. Instead, I’ll be performing a Life Cycle Assessment of the Arduino Duemilanove. From there, I’ll [...]
Artists’ Materials via the Brooklyn Museum API
For Programming A to Z last week, Adam asked us to get some XML from a web service and use it as input into one of our previous programs. I chose to work with the Brooklyn Museum’s API. In looking through an XML sample from their site, I was intrigued by the variety of artists’ [...]