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Moments in panels
This week’s homework examines on the different ways we can combine words and images.
Interdependent
Word Specific
Parallel
Picture specific
Personally, I preferred the picture specific method in this particular story of me crashing my bike. I t...
Fate/zero 1st version for 7 & XP
Here is the Fate/zero first version from Natsukyo. Since this is the first version, so there will be 2nd version, will be share with you all next time.
I hope this is not too late to share the theme with you all, since the anime first season alre...
Black Rock Shooter Theme
Hello everyone, it's been a while since the last update... erm let's see, already 6 months (>.<). If you wonder why I didn't update for so long, one is because busy, then lead to no mood, hence become inactive, or maybe because I'm am lazy, ah well,...
Skeletal tracking
This week Kim Ash and I worked together on the skeletal tracking of the Kinect using OpenNI. The idea is when you reach a pose, a “nuclear” explosion occurs. Using the code sample from ITP Resident Greg Borenstien’s book “Making Things See, 2011″, it...
Motor Kits
Over the winter break I was able to procure these at a hobby shop in the Bay Area. I’ve worked with Tamiya kits since I was in grade school and have found the quality of their kits reliable and efficient.
Upon coming back to New York for the Spring t...
Graffiti Can at the ITP Winter Show
The response has been amazing! Thank you to everyone who came on the first day of the show. Images saved by the graffiti can project can be seen here. The last day of the show is today. Come visit us in the dark room and enjoy a lot of great projects...
PCOMP Final final project
After numerous revisions it’s finally finished.
More or less. Working with small parts is very difficult especially with 30 gauge wire which is barely a thread and breaks easily which is one of the main problems I encountered with this project.
The...
Information display – ICM Finals
A far cry from what I made for the midterms, I think this would be better on another surface other than my computer screen.
So I’ve been able to parse the weather API of Yahoo and the AP headline feeds for news. Using two XML parsing codes is a bit...
PCOMP Final final project
After numerous revisions it’s finally finished.
More or less. Working with small parts is very difficult especially with 30 gauge wire which is barely a thread and breaks easily which is one of the main problems I encountered with this project.
The...
Transistor Lab
Very last minute, I’ve gotten to the transistor lab while stuck working on my final project.
Tagged: lab, PCOMP, transistor
PCOMP Finals update
Dropped Processing. Dropped Temp sensor. Long live the Ultrasonic sensor.
I gave in and picked up the ultrasonic sensor. A quick jab at the library and pasted the same values I had for the temp and got it working.
I initially used a central ground...
CommLab: Web Final Proposal
I’d like to expand my choose your own adventure game into the text based adventure games of the early personal computing age. Much like Mystery House which took me a lot of hours to complete and even got the help of my entire family since this was...
ICM Finals
I’ve decided to expand my midterm project for ICM by using real data this time.
Thanks to NYU Professor Dan Shiffman’s Yahoo Weather API code I had somewhere to begin with. Going through the Yahoo API wasn’t that hard and neither was parsing the data...
Pampanga Lantern Weekend update
I decided not to fly out for Thanksgiving and instead work on my Physical Computing final project. I initially started out Thanksgiving by going through the Muppet Show episodes and getting the Open CV code to work.
My classmate Adria Navarro-Lopez s...
Pampanga lantern – Physical Computing Final
Sooo my last idea didn’t exactly fly but that’s the way it is here. My classmates instead gave me better ideas to make this more interesting. One that resonated was suggested by Lisa Park that I should look at the work of installation artist Olafur...
Final Project for Physical Computing
Thinking of a final project is hard. Like I need ice cream to get through this hard. At first I wanted to make a robot hand being controlled by a glove. than I listed the parts I would need and that posed a significant technical problem in itself.
I...
Graffiti in a can/ media controller
Inspired by “Picasso’s Drawing with Light” we wanted to make something similar but instead of taking pictures, we would be using live video.
http://www.life.com/embed/index/gallery/id/24871/size/large/isHd/0
While Picasso used a slow shutter speed an...
The illusion of color
Focus at the cross in the middle and notice the circles disappear.
Tagged: 2D, color, commlab, illusion
ICM Seasonal Calendar
For my ICM midterms, I thought of things to make that would look cool but at the same time, represent me or at least the artistic side of me if there ever is one. I decided to make a season clock.
I come from a country where the only sesons we have i...
ITP logo
Tagged: 2D, commlab, homework, logo
ABS-CBN Logo
ABS-CBN is the largest broadcasting network in the Philppines with a long history attached to it.
It is the 2nd TV station to open is Asia following the NHK in Japan. It was originally known as Bolinao Electronics Corporation which was built by James...
Why you should not jump the turnstile.
One the first things they tell you as a foreign graduate student in New York is that you shouldn’t jump the subway turnstiles and I’ll tell you why.
Sadly, the New York subway is my current form of transportation to the city and therefore have had lo...
Business card study
Business card studies
Tagged: business card, commlab, ITP
Serial Part deux
There’s always something interesting when programming a microcontroller and the instructions don’t exactly tell you when to switch from one program to another. It was quite challenging at first but just read carefully between the lines, it’s all ther...
Stupid Pet trick
As part of every student in physical computing is to complete the stupid pet trick and mine is the “belly monitor”.
After some unusual ideas deliberated over in class, I’ve ended up with a belly monitor that monitors your eating limit. Since this var...
Typography
This week’s CommLab2D homework is about typography.
So how would my name look like in typography?
I’ve selected 3 serif and sans serif fonts to fit the bill. From my name it’s important for me for the font to have prominent A’s, M’s and D’s.
It’s i...
Let’s play with electricity
This week doesn’t require any mad programming skills and just basic electrical know how.
With the help of helping hands, this allows me to both hold the points together to get a reading on the multimeter and take a picture at the same time. Of cours...
Under pressure
Named after that song from Queen, now I have to program the arduino to recognize an analog input. Meaning, it’s not just as simply flipping a switch. This requires and entirely different mindset.
Using a knobthingy commonly known as a “potentiometer...
Wind machine
There used to be a cable channel back home that was called the “Aquarium channel” which was basically a camera pointed at a very large aquarium and played classical music the whole day. Sometimes, there would be dead fish floating and other times it...
Fantasy Device
This week’s installment is asking for a fantasy device that I would like to build. I may be taking fantasy a bit too far when I think of this. Remember in the movie Dune (1984), where Paul Atredies has to put his hand into a box, fast forward to 2:12...
Animated Ramen
This particular homework was problematic at the coding level at first. Working with Alex, my assigned partner we figured out on how we’d like to animate our projects and went to work.
I went through 3 different revisions of the code posted last week...
Dragon Age II: Mark Of The Assassin
Legacy was a great DLC which provided both character development for any scenario selected and was a far cry from previous Dragon Age DLCs which were downright disappointing.
Now they’ve announced Dragon Age II: Mark of the Assasin featuring Felicia...
Website design analysis
For the first homework for CommLab, I’ve selected a local Philippine news website for analysis.
http://interaksyon.com
“Interaksyon.com” is the news website of the television station TV5. After being recently acquired two years ago, they have yet to...
Talk to Me @ MOMA
The “Talk to Me” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is appropriate for the timing of the show and the scope that it shows. The show in my opinion basically conveys, everything is interactive.
Even though everything is interactive, there...
Christmas lights
There’s satisfaction to be had in watching lights blink especially when those lights turn on by your command.
The code is relatively simple enough now that I’ve had the weekend to digest the meaning of all these pins and ports.
//double lights gree...
Blink that light
We don’t give it much thought when we turn on a light bulb. For us it’s just a flick of the switch and that’s it! So it shouldn’t be too much trouble. Or could it?
I picked up the ITP PCOMP kit at the NYU Computer Store for around $93 including taxes...




