Week Three: Transgression

03 Oct, 2023
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This week, we're reading Chapter 1 of *Unruly Speech* by Saskia Witteborn. Witteborn frames transgression as a way of defining the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. Beyond that, she argues (through those she references) that it is necessary for …

Week One: Emergent Strategy & Research

13 Sep, 2023
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Our summer intensive is over and a new semester begins. Whereas this summer we had five weeks in-person to do and make everything, we’ll be spending 15 weeks on Zoom, going deep. Here in …

Pulse Clock Prototype, Bill of Materials

03 Aug, 2023
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Blog your idea for next week and come up with a prototype for playtesting. Prototype can be anything that communicates the overall concept of the project as well as key interactions. Be as realistic …

Pulse Clock, Part One.

31 Jul, 2023
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Previously... (Spent two days trying to get the LED ring to work without any discernible progress) Moving on to pulse sensor - this ended up being fairly straightforward. Using Pimoroni Max30101 checked out from …

I/O Device – Potentiometer-Dial-Light-Ringy-Thingy

27 Jul, 2023
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For this session, our mission is to come up with a simple application using digital and/or analog input and output to a microcontroller and make a device that allows a person to control light, …

Exploration 03: Process Research

26 Jul, 2023
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or “digging through archives of other people's work to find work that makes you want to do work.” Curiosity Syllabus In our last EM class, we spent some time working on a curiosity syllabus. …

Arduino + P5.js—Serial Communication

26 Jul, 2023
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Part 1: Lab (what we did on our own) https://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/labs/labs-serial-communication/lab-webserial-input-to-p5-js/ Part 2: Class (what we did in Tuesday session)

Analog(ue) and Digital Inputs and Outputs

24 Jul, 2023
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Dimming a Light with a Potentiometer For our lab, Digital and Analog In with an Arduino, we connected our Arduino through a potentiometer to an LED. Side note: I still don't know what a …

Project 01 – Adventures in 3D Printing

19 Jul, 2023
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Before we Begin My brain is fried. I know it'll get better as the course goes on, but right now it's hard to think coherently. Apologies in advance to anybody who has the misfortune …

Interface Lab Week One: Back to the Breadboard.

18 Jul, 2023
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Last year, I came to ITP Camp with the goal of learning enough physical computing to finally complete my Timefeel project. A month later, all I had was an exploded Arduino and shattered dreams. …