Monthly Archive for March, 2006

ISD2590

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After roughly a month’s time, we finally got the ISD chip to work (after Michael Schneider rewired parts of the board, used different speakers and replaced the switches with “always off,” instead of “always on.”) It records sound and plays back. We are also able to record over previously recorded tracks.

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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See, by Donald D. Hoffman

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Chapter 7, p.173-184

We often consider the usage of body parts in thinking about physical interactivity. The way a person clicks a button, how much pressure is needed and the feedback received are analyzed and tested. We can settle upon some fundamental commonalities amongst these observations. How often, though, do we consider the usage of “phantom” body parts (body parts that have been lost/amputated, due to accidents?)

“Something in the Way She Moves”

Final Project Proposal

in collaboration with Rocio Barcia

Objective: Merging the virtual and the real

This project consists of a screen that plays an image of sand. A video camera pick up the movement of the viewer and moves the sand on screen, according to the way the person moves. When the sand reaches past the bottom of the screen, real sand falls down below it.

http://rociobarcia.com/pcomp/index.html

Hello blog!

It began last night, sometime around 3am. I decided it was essential to transport my ITP blog from Moveable Type on the NYU server to WordPress, on my own server. Three hours later, the bed was calling to me.

I spent most of the entire day today, carefully interspersed with design/ illustration for the DE presentation tomorrow along with a couple of meetings, trying to get this thing to work. With a little help from other ITP students (thank you Tikva and Christin), and tech support from the webhosting company, it FINALLY WORKS!!

Now, to move the rest of my blog over to here…