Aart School: Archive

Research Plan

Project summary I am looking to create a product and or service that will improve the experience of being a hospital patient. Currently hospital rooms — and the things in them — are designed for the ease of the staff and the safety of the patient. This is a good thing, but little thought is given to the patient’s experience. Beds are very uncomfortable, light switches and bedside tables are...

Oct 11th

Apr 7th

Final Project →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Final Project by Stephanie Aaron, Gene Lu, Colleen Miler, and Beatriz Vizcanio MindFULL is a device that helps people develop the habit of eating slowly. It takes the brain 20 minutes to know it’s full, but most American eat their meals in 10 minutes or less. MindFULL helps you slow down, chew your food and focus on your eating. Eating slower helps...

Dec 23rd

Midterm →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Midterm Project SAVI: The Smart Audio Volume Indicator Phone A project with Jeff Kirsch and Evinn Quinn Basically, Jeff’s post (see link) says it all. Additionally, this technology would fit into any phone, it would not be the huge 1980s-sized phone in our mockup.

Dec 23rd

RADIO LAB PART 2 →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Ten: Radio lab Using Xbee radios to create wireless doorbells. This one has a led or feedback

Dec 17th

Radio Lab Part 1 →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Ten: Radio lab Using Xbee radios to create wireless doorbells.

Dec 17th

Animated Function →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 12: Animated Function Three instances of the function Mr. Happy Guy animates from top left to bottom right of the page

Dec 1st

Bounce →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 8: Bounce Square bounces but loses energy over time.

Nov 30th

Mr. Happy Guy with Catepillars →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 11: Shared Function YOUR OWN FUNCTION Add your own feature to the world! You might want to use a character you’ve already created, or devise a new feature. Be creative and colorful! Make your feature with at least 3 shapes. Put your feature into its own appropriately named function, and add at least 2 parameters to move it...

Nov 30th

Mr. Happy Guy →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 10: My Happy Guy YOUR OWN FUNCTION Add your own feature to the world! You might want to use a character you’ve already created, or devise a new feature. Be creative and colorful! Make your feature with at least 3 shapes. Put your feature into its own appropriately named function, and add at least 2 parameters to move it around...

Nov 30th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Eight: Motor Lab Using Arduino to control a motor. An H bridge allows the motor to go in both directions,

Nov 29th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Eight: Motor Lab Using Arduino to control a motor.

Nov 29th

Nov 18th

Snowman →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 9: Snowman SNOW MAN Here is a sketch of a house. There is a Snow Man next to the house. Find the code for the Snow Man in the draw() function, and put that code into it’s own appropriately named function. Don’t add any parameters to your function (you will add them in the next step). Add two parameters to the SnowMan function...

Nov 18th

Color Swapper →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 6: Color swapper

Nov 6th

Boxcar Willie →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 7: Racing box

Nov 6th

Light Boxes →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 5: Light Boxes

Oct 28th

Flying Skull →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 4: Simple Animation Take a look at this sketch. It moves the TeddyBear across the screen from the lower-lefthandcorner to the upper-righthand corner. Check the example’s code to see how it performs this simple animation. Change your Character sketch so it performs a similarly simple movement. Save As.. this sketch, naming it...

Oct 28th

Skull →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 3: Animated character Create a simple 2-5 shape “character” that you will animate on the screen. Begin a New sketch in Processing. Design/Plan your character on a piece of paper. Compose the character out of shapes that you know how to draw in Processing. Pick a “reference” point on your character. Think of this point as...

Oct 28th

Color Swatches →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 2: Color Swatches Start with this simple drawing program with two buttons. There are two square buttons at the bottom of the screen. When the user clicks on the buttons a simple message is printed to the console. Pick two colors from the Color Selector on the Tools menu. You will have to remember the R, G and B values or the...

Oct 28th

Shape Buttons →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Seven: Programing Lab 2, part 1: Shape Buttons Start with the TwoShape program we looked at in class Change the shapes to two of your own design (i.e. a triangle, oval or something else). Move the shapes buttons to the bottom of the page. Save As.. this sketch, naming it yourname-Shape

Oct 28th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Six: Analog Output, part 4 Using Arduino and a flex senor I created a musical instrument that creates different tones as you move the flex sensor to different positions.

Oct 14th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Six: Analog Output, part 3 Using Arduino to create tones. The potentiometer changes the tones.

Oct 14th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Six: Analog Output, part 2 Using Arduino to control a servo, I changes the code so the servo did not go all the way around.

Oct 14th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Six: Analog Output, part 1 Using Arduino to control a servo

Oct 14th

Drawing with a clear button in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 8: Create a clear button Decide an area on the sketch’s canvas outside of the drawable area, where when the mouse is pressed in it, everything that has been drawn so far is erased. In comments in your code, write the extents of this area. (Just like you did in the previous program.) Draw a rectangle that visually shows where...

Oct 7th

Drawable area in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 7: Create a drawable area Decide on a rectangle area in the canvas of the sketch of your program as being drawable. This means that when the mouse button is pressed, your paint brush will only make marks within this area and not outside of it. What are the 4 pixel coordinates of your area? In comments in your code, write down...

Oct 7th

Drawing when mouse is pressed in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 6: Drawing when the mouse is pressed Using a conditional “if” statement, change your program so that it only draws when the mouse is pressed. You can use the mousePressed variable to determine the current state of the mouse button.

Oct 7th

Paintbrush in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 5: create a Paintbrush in Processing Set your screen size to 400 x 600. Create two or more shapes that make a pattern. Use the mouseX and mouseY variables for one of the coordinates of each shape Make the other coordinates relative to mouseX and mouseY by using a statement for each coordinate such as mouseX+37 Run your program ...

Oct 7th

Albers Painting in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 4: Recreate a Josef Albers painting in Processing.

Oct 7th

Full Color in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 3: full color Change Grayscale image to full color Use the stroke(), fill() and background() commands to change the way your shapes look. Change the opacity (alpha) of some of the shapes so they become partially transparent

Oct 7th

Grayscale drawing in Processing →

Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Five: Processing, part 2: Create a picture in grayscale containing at least one point, line, triangle, quad, rect, and ellipse.

Oct 7th

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Sep 27th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Three: Build a Switch I made a switch using felt and snaps. When the snaps are closed the LED is off. When the snap opens the light goes on. Possible applications: theft deterrence or a bag that lights up when opened so you can find your stuff.

Sep 16th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Two: Digital Input and Output Part Two: Control an LED with a Momentary Switch I used a momentary switch to turn the LED on and off .

Sep 16th

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Fundamentals of Physical Computing Lab Two: Digital Input and Output Part One: Blink an LED. I used an Ardunio board to control the blinking LED.

Sep 16th