PROJECT_2 some other info

Ben found a great site with some fun information about solar power projects.

http://www.ez2c.de/ml/solar_land_area/

PROJECT_2 some revsions, some updates

after discussing out idea, we have decided to scale it down to just the united states. this is because it is a smaller scale of place, and the viewer can identify more closely with their position in the world, if one relates it to a space they can form a close attachment to.

so we will be using a relief of the united states, as cut by a CNC router, via an STL file of the rendering.

EXCITING THINGS!

PROJECT_2

GROUP : Mary, Liz, Ben

(liz and me with ben's sketch)

Topic : peak oil

WHY : according to geologists, we have reached the peak of the earths oil. this does not mean that we are running out of oil per-say but what it does mean is that the cost to extract oil will be more than the return on the investment. this issue is very controversial, even for environmentalists. we plan on making in interactive map where by the viewer can see the use of a reserve... project cost per year... shedding light on an issue is the first step to creating social change. by creating an interactive piece it cause the viewer handle the information physically, it becomes concrete.

http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9023773&contentId=7044469

Socail Scupture

Social Sculpture

i dont know why i cant think of tech art without thinking of tvs. maybe its because i love gary hill. maybe its because its as hi-tech as i get. i read that you can make little TV using dweenies, so that's what i plan to do. with some help of an engineer, i would like to make them interactive... and set up a webiste that is in real time. (but that might be slightly ambitious... for me)

SKETCH
INSPIRATION
(gary hill)

site of interest

Electronic Arts Intermix

http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=3903

Arduino_Photocell

so, moving forward with dweenie, on to photocells. Lets give it a go... and we are ... not quite succesful. hm. okay so leme break down what im seeing here



i have the orange wire attached to the 11 digital in, which is the same column as the resistor (1). the other end of the resistor (1) goes into the positive side of the LED. The negative side of the LED goes the same column as the green wire, which attaches to the other resistor (2) and the ground through the black wire. the other side of the resistor (2) goes to the negative side of photocell, and the blue wire which goes to the 0 analog in. the positive side of the photocell is in the same column as the red wire which goes to power (5v). BAH what has gone wrong?!

i used the code following the diagram.



but this happened...



:(

Arduino_Knock

so. me and dweenie were getting along near famously until the knock sensor. i forgot something, whereby when i knocked, nothing happened.... (uh-oh)

i followed the little diagram, but using the breadboard
so, that wasnt making full sense to me, so i read the schematics...

and ended up here... and kept going...

used the knock code... but nothing happened?


hmmmm.

Arduino_Magnetopots

so. magnetopots are basically magnetic potentiometers, rather than turn a knob, the input is done with touching a magnetic strip


using the same code as the potentiometer, the message is sent through the magnetic strip

test : video

Arduino_Potentiometer

AH. so i forgot my little arduino (who i will be calling dweenie) on thursday. oh dear. so i'm doing the tech-ercises via blog.

Potentiometer / spectra-symbol (linear POT)

so the red wire goes the voltage (5v)
the blue wire goes analogue in (2)
and the black wire goes to ground (gnd)

its a manual potentiometer- line up with each on the breadboard


copy code



video test
(thanks to my lovely roommates for the ambiance)

arduino help site

http://makezine.com/getstartedarduino/

PUSHCODE
// Example 02: Turn on LED while the button is pressed
//
// Copy and paste this example into an empty Arduino sketch

#define LED 13   // the pin for the LED
#define BUTTON 7 // the input pin where the
                // pushbutton is connected
int val = 0;     // val will be used to store the state
                // of the input pin

void setup() {
 pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);   // tell Arduino LED is an output
 pinMode(BUTTON, INPUT); // and BUTTON is an input
}

void loop(){
 val = digitalRead(BUTTON); // read input value and store it

 // check whether the input is HIGH (button pressed)
 if (val == HIGH) {
   digitalWrite(LED, HIGH); // turn LED ON
 } else {
   digitalWrite(LED, LOW);
 }
}

video : about arduino

http://science.discovery.com/videos/nerdabout-vlogs-arduino.html