Final : Acupuncture +

Concepts:

* Balance and Counterbalance - Physical Wellbeing (Upper/Lower, Ying/Yang)

* Organs that have emotional associations

* 'Action at a distance' - connections between two things that seem separate

* 'Human' versus something clinical, removed, Realism vs. Abstraction

* Horizontal vs. vertical/ 2D vs. 3D space/ Sculptural vs. Illustrative

Game vs. Art

game brings incentive to interact, but might be mundane - 'fun' way of presenting knowledge
vs.
art could be more complex, but people might lose interest, asks more of the viewer

game that becomes art / art that becomes games

Foot model vs. body:

full size vs. scale
reduced model vs. too much info

Subway Map/Data Map vs. Emotional visuals/Video:

interesting metaphorical connection, showing relationship between two different systems, blood flow like flow of traffic/pedestrians
vs.
not so 'one dimensional' or 'cute' - not as easily resolved/understood, potential for more complex connections and relationships between people/emotions/organs/situations

Using data visualization as a model to explain connection - potential for different educational model
vs.
More associative response

Education vs. Expression:

Final : Acupuncture +

Mitch Said, my ICM classmate approached me for some knowledge and experience of arcupuncture I have learned years ago.
Since I teamed up with Oscar and Sophia to do LightWaveDj physcomp project already, I had to decide where to go for final project. After Mitch and I discussed O-Haeng theraphy and arcupuncture for about four hous(!!), I finally decided to group with Mitch. (Sorry, Oscar!)

Although none of us clearly had something very specific in mind, both of us felt somewhat 'connected' in somewhere.
We've discussed what kind of visual and physical interface will be, in terms of adapting this acupuncture to computer-generated way of expression. Mitch strongly showed his interests in general philosophy of doing acupuncture - trafficking congestions.
Then we came up with the idea of connecting that idea to mundane life such as heavy traffic jam occurring in public area, protesting crowd, subway congestion, bottleneck...to name a few.

This is, so far, our idea of physcomp final project. We're ready to ignite our creativity to further more.

The reasons we chose not to only focus on the 'educational' aspect of the project:

Simple. To make acupuncture educational, one should consider so many things. Even if they are organized and structured in educational form, we wouldn't want to argue ....

More detail about our decision to focus on one main aspect of acupuncture.


http://getmitchquick.wordpress.com/category/computing-physically/

This is the link to Mitch's physcomp blog. You might get more ideas from here.

Lab 6 - DC Motor

Yeah...this was too late to do DC motor lab after most people uploaded theirs. But, I did it, and am (even) proud of it.

It worked pretty well except several times that the motor won't be running without any reason. I assume that this is the problem of the motor quality, not caused by arduino.

The gear box - set worked even worse than the motor on the pictures below.

Lab 5 - Serial

Serial

Final - Polarioid idea sketch

Midterm - Sound to Motion

Lab 4 -Analog Out

As I stated on last post, my old arduino board died leaving only digital I/O. So, I bought a new one from NYU bookstore, not from eBay for this time. Also I made sure that they will swap the board in case not working.


I brought some of my old toys from Korea to see if these are good materials to do physical computing works. The toys includes a Radio remote control box with two servos and one digital receiver.

Lab 3 - Analog In&Out - Problem occured/Figured out

This is not my first time doing Analog In and Out. The potentiometer worked fine last time, but it didn't tonight no matter what I was testing around anything.
The problem was that LED didn't show delicate difference when rotating either potentiometer or flex sensor. It kept blinking in very same interval. Then I switched the power source from USB to A/C adaptor but same result was shown. Only reason that I can assume what caused this malfunctioning LED might be from the wood attaching process. Since the screws were about 3mm longer than the depth of wood piece, I had to grind them by using of disc grinder.
Did it somehow damage the board? Were those screws fasten too much?

Sensors I tried to sync:

• Potentiameter
• Flex Sensor
• Force Sensor

On arduino program, I could see numbers changing and they were not following given analog input. They even varied when the switch stopped.

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Revised Sep 25th - It turns out, my board only works when doing Digital IO, not Analog IO.
Mouna helped me out enormously in thousand ways to figure out what caused this, we finally came up with the idea of 'partial damage' on my arduino board. So, I need to buy an extra board to explore deeper Analog world.

Lab 2 - Digital In & Out

• Two LEDs (Red/ Yellow)
• One Momentary Push-button Switch
• Voltage Regulator
• Resisters
  

At first, I was a little careless for resister so didn't get the right amount of light from LED. Very soon I figured that I need 'lighter' resister which is 97.5 Ohms one and....Voila!

Second mistake I made: didn't connect digital input pin for a switch. (on aruduino: int switchPin = 2),then corrected that error.

Lab 1

Finally, with assist from peers, I was able to create this simple bread board.

Initially, I set the board with only few wires just to make sure whole electricity flows smoothly from power adapter -> voltage regulator-> red LED.

The view of both voltage regulator and momentary switch (both of wires should've been red).

This LED will always glow anytime I press the switch, meaning an 'indicator' to figure out whether the board gets electricity or not.

Yellow LED's luminosity varies by Potentiometer. (When soldering, It was tricky to tell which is Input, Ground and Output at first. I found it's better to have blue wire in center.)