Week 11: Post Circuit Board

Conductive paint, epoxy, velcro, fabric, thread, plastic, connectors, tape and other materials for the Post Circuit Board Era. Ask the Lab Tech in the CDT lab for the Home X conductive fabric box to experiment with the materials we played around with in class.

Post Circuit Board tutorial

Check out Tracy’s post circuit board birthday card

Add comment April 17th, 2007

Week 8: The Midterm.

The assignment: spoil yourself. Make something for you or your home. Here are some of the results…

Carolina and Tracy’s haptic mouseskin earmuffs

Tracy’s blog post on the haptic earmuffs

Hee’s social knitting project

Yasmine’s multipurpose resin arm

Arava’s reading light

Becky’s slippers and desk

Danielle’s utensil organizer

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Week 6: Mouse Taxidermy

Week 6. My favorite week 6 ever. I am really proud of you all for mastering your fears, staying late, making some lovely mice and winning the best of show in the Parsons CDT Taxidermy Tourney. Better luck next year Sven. As a general rule, bring your ‘A’ game when the Home X class of 07 is in the lab.

Thanks Canida for teaching us what we needed to know about mouse taxidermy here, here and here and to the entire class for conquering your fear. Here is the result. Best students ever. Flicks courtesy of Yasmine. Big thanks to Phil for coming to the class.

Check out Vaderlin’s terminator mouse tutorial. Everyone else post your flicks and tag them “mousetaxidermy”

The next assignment is to come up with an idea for your midterm project. The mid-term assignment is to make something for yourself or for your home. As opposed to a class project or exercise. Make something you will actually want to keep, something you’ve always wanted to make but homework kept getting in the way. Now it is your homework. And you must show us all how you made it on the web. We will give each other feedback on our ideas next week. Your mid-term presentations will be during week 8. If one other person promises to make something edible and bring it to our week 7 class, i will as well.

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Week 5: Arduino

Arduino. Digital Output: an LED. Analog Input: a potentiometer. And look you moved a motor. Use the attached code and links. Tom Igoe and the internet provide the answers. You get to digg around for the questions. Ask me any of em if you got em. No assignment other than to play around with the code demonstrated in class and read your cartoons about physics. Quiz looming. Email the homex list is you have any questions.

Code to use a potentiometer to control an RC servo and send data to the serial monitor.

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