Bryce and Dan (www.danielhoffmanart.com) worked on an installation that is currently on display in the Crystal City Water Park in Arlington Virginia. We are hoping to have some more picture and some video in the future but you can see our jelly fish inspired creature come to life every evening around dusk.
After just one hour of instruction the Philadelphia University Industrial Design Juniors are taking full advantage of their abilities. Not bad considering we have only been through the blink tutorial. With out further adieux HELLO WORLD.
Here are some useful resources I am using for the Philadelphia University Industrial Design Studio 6 DUX project. This content is not mine so please respect the licenses of the linked items.
Arduino Diecimila:
Arduino Examples:
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
Spark Fun Inventors Kit Tutorials
OHM’s Law:
I=V/R
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm’s_law
LED’s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode
Resistors:
Hydrolic Analogy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/watcir.html
We just got word yesterday that our proposal for the 2011 Illuminated Sculpture Grant was selected by the Crystal City to be included as part of this summer’s installations. Bryce will be working with Dan Hoffman on the phosphorescent creature installation that will open on the 1st of april. We will have some process shots coming down the line so keep posted.
Today we kicked off the 2010 Sprint Project for the Philadelphia University Industrial Design Department. We have a great sponsor this year! Innovative is a LCD arm manufacturer that produces some top of the line products. The also have some great talent on their design team from my alumni class. In any case, the Junior’s I am teaching with Mike Leonard will be managing the teams that have members from each class. Talking with the sponsors today there is a bunch of excitement about the project and I am excited to be working with some old friends. Check back for some photos.
The “Twi Writer” is a twitter visualization project that allows users to temporarily write messages on phosphorescent boards using 400nm lasers. This unique spectrum charges the phosphorescent laser instantly and spells out messages similar to how plan would sky write.
The project uses and arduino micro controller, 15 laser pointers and a remote power source. All of the computing happens on a mac laptop running processing and communicates with the arduino via serial over usb.
Maker Faire was a bunch of fun over the weekend however it was a pretty brutal way to end a long week. I didn’t have a bunch of time to take a look around but there were some very interesting projects in a variety of fun areas. Our booth was located right next to the fellas at Instructables. We showed a laser charged phosphorescent twitter visualization a motion tracking projection, and my thesis blunderbus. The response was great and we hope to have the documentation and code up this week. I was also able to see a few of the ICP masters project which were quite impressive, it would have been great to have a bit more time to talk with those students about there work. In any case, maker faire was well worth the trip and anytime you can pile that many geeks in one place you are bound to have a great time and learn a bunch.
The blunderbus toolset was developed to streamline the development of projects that require linking low cost arduino micro-controllers to Internet enabled mobile devices. Users will be able to load the muzzle of the system with all kinds of sensor data and then transfer that data to remote interface that can monitor the data and shoot a response back to the micro-controller. In order to make the system accessible to both experienced programmers and newcomers alike, blunderbus focuses on making the toolset easy to use and set up. It is intended that this open source project will expand capabilities of open source hardware platforms whilst remaining true to the nature of the DIY electronics culture.
The alpha 0.0.0 release is now available. Please check it out and let us know what problem you run into. This is a test release and requires your feedback for improvements
Thanks to everybody who came by our booth at Maker Faire this weekend. We spent the past two weeks preparing for the event and were thrilled at the response to our projects. We will be posting some videos on the projects we displayed at the faire when we get a chance . If you have any feed back or pictures from the faire we would love to see them.
Here is Bryce posing at our booth.
Bryce is telling someone about “blunderbus”.
After spending the last week without a whole lot of sleep Jeffy was still quite excited to be here!
As for blunderbus (the iphone to adruino toolset), we will be releasing the documentation, installation instructions, software package and source code this week. You can review my thesis synthesis write up by following the link above. After the feed back from the show we have some new fuel in our tanks to keep working on this project. We will have plenty of exciting news to relay to you in the next week or so. Please check back for updates.
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