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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Very last minute, I’ve gotten to the transistor lab while stuck working on my final project. Tagged: lab, PCOMP, transistor

  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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

    Focus at the cross in the middle and notice the circles disappear. Tagged: 2D, color, commlab, illusion

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...

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...

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 studies Tagged: business card, commlab, ITP

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...