My time as a MFA candidate in the
Design and Technology program at
Parsons The New School for Design.

Still playing catch up with my documentation here. This is an assignment from a couple weeks ago in Physical Computing. We started to play around with servo motors. This video shows that I’ve gotten a potentiometer to control a servo motor through the Arduino board. However, the actual assignment was to come up with a [...]

This week our assignment was to get an ISD1700 voice recorder chip up and running. The square thing near the speaker is the microphone.

We finally broke open our Arduino boards. And then we promptly threw them out. We removed the atmega chip and put it on a breadboard for versatility. Here are a couple tests: A simple LED test: And here’s a button press test: And our assignment was called “Code Lock”. We had to use a minimum [...]

Our midterm assignment for Physical Computing was to create a “random” number generator. We were given a dual digit numeric display, two BCD-to-7 segment drivers (for the display), and a dual decade counter (for the drivers). The finished product should count from “00″ to “99″ (and overflow to “00″) when a button is pressed and [...]

Last Friday’s lesson in Physical Computing was about the 555 & 556 Integrated Circuits. Here are a couple of assignments illustrating uses. Circuit #1 & #2: Monostable Circuit / Astable Circuit ============================================================== Elementary uses of IC Timer 556. Circuit #3: Toy Organ ============================================================== A “toy organ” using different capacitors for different frequencies. Circuit #4: Basic [...]

Last Friday’s lesson in Physical Computing was about transistors. Here are a couple of assignments illustrating uses. Circuit #1: Transistor Toggle ============================================================== Switch between two LEDs by using transistors and a push button. Circuit #2: Dark On Circuit ============================================================== Using a potentiometer, photoresistor, and transistor, make an LED turn on when the photoresistor is covered. [...]