Aquarduino

Aquarduino

The thing you didn’t know you wanted! It’s midterm time for PComp and though my partner Utsav and I settled on developing what is essentially a very smart coaster to keep you nicely hydrated throughout the day. We figured anyone not…

Motors and button presses

Motors and button presses

Being able to count instances of a sensor change using a peak value would have been incredibly helpful last week when trying to figure out how to get my lantern to take a useful reading. My problem then was all…

Digital and Analog

Digital and Analog

I like working through the labs a few times outside of class because even if I think I get it in theory, the repetition of physically putting it together (and breaking it…) helps me to fully understand. So I know…

Citi Bike Watching

Citi Bike Watching

For PComp this past week we were asked to pick a piece of interactive technology in public and observe it in use (be sneaky!). I initially wanted to watch Chloe, what seems to be a giant vending machine for dvds and…

Playing with Switches

Playing with Switches

Our second week of PComp involved actually setting up a breadboard – LEDs, switches, resistors, and Arduino as power supply. And though I hardly know what the huge assortment of other available parts do yet, these few basic ones? I…