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Final Project: Therapeutic Glove/(Torture Glove)

Posted on May 13, 2011 by ally

For our final project, Julia, John, Dan and I wanted to expand upon Julia’s fantasy device from earlier in this semester and create a glove that could alleviate hand pain and tremors for people suffering from arthritis and Parkinson’s disease. … Continue reading →

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Lab: Multiple Serial Output

Posted on May 1, 2011 by ally

I used an accelerometer and a push button as my two sensors. When the line of code read Serial.println(analogValue, DEC); the number that read on the serial monitor was 489 when my breadboard was not moving, and ranged from 300-700 when … Continue reading →

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Lab: Serial Output

Posted on April 29, 2011 by ally

Here is my serial garbage in Cornflake: I imported the processing serial library and followed the example code and here is the lovely example of my graphed serial data: Woo I’m reading serial input!

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Media Controller

Posted on March 30, 2011 by ally

Arduino Code: void setup() { Serial.begin( 9600 ); pinMode( 2, INPUT ); } void loop() { int accelX = analogRead( 0 ); int accelY = analogRead( 1 ); int switchState = digitalRead( 2 ); Serial.print(accelX, DEC); Serial.print(“,”); Serial.print(accelY, DEC); Serial.print(“,”); … Continue reading →

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Stupid Pet Trick: Kelis makes you a milkshake

Posted on March 2, 2011 by ally

Digging through my desk drawer, I found this freebie Kelis cd I got in a gift bag from fall fashion week. Not really being a Kelis fan, I was going to throw it away but decided to open it up … Continue reading →

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Lab: Tone Output

Posted on March 2, 2011 by ally

Like the servo labs, this was pretty straight forward but fun. Here is the video:

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Lab: Servo/Analog Out

Posted on February 26, 2011 by ally

This was fun. I hooked the servo up first with a potentiometer and then the pressure sensor. The pressure sensor was more fun to play with, since the potentiometer was limited in speed by how fast I could turn the … Continue reading →

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Lab: Electronics

Posted on February 23, 2011 by ally

Analog Multimeter Measuring Continuity I used an analog multimeter for this lab, so I needed to figure out how to test for continuity since it is different from the digital example. For testing continuity on this multimeter, there is no separate … Continue reading →

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Fantasy Device: Scent Capture/Printer

Posted on February 16, 2011 by ally

Smells are strongly tied to memories, but they tend to be fleeting (at least the good smells) and difficult to replicate without the item from which it emanates. What I would like to have is a handheld device with a receptor … Continue reading →

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Getting Creative! [Analog In Lab]

Posted on February 16, 2011 by ally
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