Physical Computing

I started working on an idea that I've had for a while now - creating an experimental musical instrument - a deconstructed version of the arabic Oud (though inspired also by Sitar and saz). While western music mostly uses tones and half tones, instrument like the Oud are used to produce quarter tones as well. When playing the Oud the left hand usually slide on the fretless neck to produce this sounds hence is responsible for the "analog" aspect of moving through a range of mi

Group project by Matt Blanco, Jean Jules Irakoze and Michael Nadav. In the initial stage we were brainstorming some ideas we've had for a halloween themed project, these are a few of the thoughts we've had in mind: A Jack in the box - something with a jump scare effect, perhaps with a sound played through an SD card connected to the arduino, maybe LEDs lighting up from some take on a jack O' lantern and other clichés. We had an idea that the scary thing in the box could be pu

In this weeks lab everything went pretty much smoothly except for the part where we were supposed to make the serial monitor show the...

I was able to use almost only the schematics this week and felt more comfortable with the whole wiring and building a circuit process....

This week I started to understand better the schematics for the arduino copying less the breadboard diagrams. The ideas of voltage,...

After almost 3 weeks I finally arrived in NYC and got my Pcomp kit. I was a bit overwhelmed by the idea of implementing the abstract...