The concept for this project can be found in an earlier blog post. It features a sound-to-light color organ circuit, an LED daisy-chain and force-sensing resistor circuit, Max-based logic and sound created with Ableton Live. Read more

The high-level concept for my PComp Final is to create a sound generator/color organ through interaction with silicone blobs in the shape of jellyfish. Read more

An excellent band name, and also the title of this blog post. Read more

After last week’s play tests, we realized that the users needed more response from our device so that they could know how they were controlling the machine’s output. Read more

I started playing around with the Minim library for Processing to see how we might be able to read sound data as input for our Drawing Machine. Read more

My group is making a drawing machine. We will need to take extra care to ensure an element of interactivity for this project. Read more

Following the lab tutorial, I used Processing to draw a circle based on an accelerometer’s x- and y-axis data. Read more

From Donald Hoffman, Visual Intelligence
Hoffman argues in his book Visual Intelligence that ”everything you see you construct,” and not just sight but what you hear, smell, taste and feel. Read more

Interactive art is different that other forms of art. Traditionally, a work of art is an expression, a statement. Read more

Combination Lock
From the Lab Tutorial
Only a specific combination of pressed buttons will turn the light green. Read more

Norman, Attractive Things Work Better
Norman makes the argument that attractive things work better, because an object’s usability is closely tied into our experiences with it. Read more

Before getting into a description of how tools define our user experiences, Brett Victor first defines a tool with the following: “a tool addresses human needs by amplifying human capabilities.” This is a good defnition, because Victor argues that a tool essentially “converts what we can do into what we want to do.” Instead of talking about needs or technology, Victor instead opts to talk about the oft-neglected element in his definition: human capabilities. Read more

In today’s physical computing class, we started thinking about our sensory experiences, and were asked to begin thinking about our bodies and how they relate to our designs. Read more