Author Archives: jas920
Serial: p5 vs node
This week we experimented with passing serial from sensors through different programs, and using serial to control things on the web or in real life! Troubleshooting I initially couldn’t get p5 to list the available ports and couldn’t figure out why since I copied the code from the lab. I went back to the code […]
Business Cards
This week we learned about composition, and were tasked with creating a design for a personal business card. I do data analysis full-time, but I’ve been moving toward data visualization at ITP. I knew from our typography exercise that I wanted to use Raleway for the font. As an initial step, I printed out my name and […]
Analog Out labs
This week we worked with analog out, using it to control a servo motor and a small speaker. To create sound, we used the tone function and the pitches library. I used a photocell as my variable resistor for servo motor control, but I also tried building my own FSR with velostat. I got normal […]
Coffee/Beer/Carbs/Please don’t judge me
Color Hue Test Color palette of food/drink before and during ingestion For the color palette of my life I chose to photograph everything I ate and drank for about 75 hours. I chose food and drink partially because I was concerned that this would end up being a project about my office environment, but […]
Interaction Observations
Gym equipment I hate cardio equipment but I have been exposed to it enough to have some assumptions about how it’s used. I thought their use would be interesting to observe because while I have a friend who literally train for marathons on treadmills and just watches TV, I’d never do either of these things even […]
Digital In/Out & Analog In labs
This week we learned to read input from switches, variable resistors, or sensors connected to the digital and analog inputs on arduino and how to send digital signal out to control actuators. The first thing I did was build a circuit with a button and a pull down resistor to read digital (on/off) input from the […]
Typography & word as image
This week was a challenge since I started out knowing nothing about typography or illustrator, but I considered it a cool opportunity to analyze fonts I like and have used in the past without thinking about why, and a good chance to practice very useful software. I’ve had to choose fonts for web projects, so […]
Electronics Labs
For this week’s electronics lab we worked on learning to use a breadboard, building simple circuits, and providing power to our circuit with an arduino or power supply. I worked with LEDs in series and in parallel, resistors, switches including a soft button I built with conductive fabric, and a motor. I practiced measuring voltage, […]
Visual Analysis: Movie Poster
I was looking through old movie posters when I saw this one for Harold and Maude that I hadn’t seen before. I found a different version that also included the sunflower motorcycle in English, but from what I could tell this one and its variations were used for a European audience. The blocks of text make the poster seem […]
Physical Interaction
What is physical interaction? A physical interaction is an exchange between a person and and object, or machine, where both are intelligently responding to what is being expressed. A good physical interaction is one where the person can tell, or figure out, how to communicate to the object or machine based on design or […]