Newsletter #6

Newsletter #6

Coming out of Quarters, we felt empowered by the positive response from the faculty about our prototypes so far. However, it was clear to the…

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Newsletter #5

Newsletter #5

This week we had our first milestone for the project and it was the first wide-scale opportunity for us as a team to elicit feedback…

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Quarters

Quarters

Today was our first milestone for the project and was the first wide-scale opportunity for us as a team to elicit feedback from the faculty…

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Sewable Circuit Experiments!

Sewable Circuit Experiments!

So while Elwin is working on some ‘firefly’ effects for the jars project, I’ve been researching how to incorporate LEDs and fabric to create a…

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Newsletter #4

Newsletter #4

We dug into the Jars prototype for this week and explored  ways that the jars could technically capture audio and play it back as well…

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Controlling a Large Number of LEDs with a Single Arduino

Controlling a Large Number of LEDs with a Single Arduino

The first big technical challenge for our team was figuring out how we were going to use a single Arduino to drive the huge number…

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Newsletter #3

Newsletter #3

Our final week for the first prototype has concluded! The focus for this week was to test our sensing capabilities and to prepare for building…

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Powering all those little glowy things

Powering all those little glowy things

In my previous post, I talked about what kind of component we needed in order to control a large number of LEDs. But what about…

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Driving a looooooot of LEDs

Driving a looooooot of LEDs

Driving Multiple LEDs Before stumbling across the RGB LED chain, I did research on how to control a large number LEDs through the Arduino. The…

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Components: RGB LEDs

Components: RGB LEDs

One of the toughest jobs of working with electronics is going through a huge list of components and finding the right ones for our concept…

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