Saturday, November 15, 2008

Another Finale

Major Interactive - Images & Video

* Images.


* Set - Up.


* 4 prototypes.


* Light-based work that is developed into the real life-size.


* Light box and the computer. (Light is off).


* Light box and the computer. (Light is on).


* Video. 



* Credits:
- Teresa Almeida (guidance);
- Andreas Schlegel (guidance & technical matter);
- Rashid Bin Saini (guidance & critique);
- IA5A (moral support);
- Edwin Chen (help video shooting);
- Mimi Liu (user test);
- Hai and Melvin Tan Kok Keong (technical suggestions);
- Siti Aisyah (user test and help in pattern cutting);
- Winny Kusmin (Voice-over);
- Erni Kie (help in pattern cutting);
- Fiona Teoh (ideas, suggestions and photography);
- Sherly Susanto (ideas and suggestions).

Images-Retake

Prototypes

* Images.


* Top View.

* Side view.

* Sticky flipping floor.
* Conveyor belt.

* Rotating floor.
* Light.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Webpages Documentation

Documentation
* 8 webpages.


* Outline of the webpage.
* Using contrast color to differentiate the parts clearly.


* Working on the button link.
* The square will be changed to a circle shape in Flash software.


* The shape of the whole buttons is taken from the shape of Tree of Life (TOF).


* Color adjustment.



* One of the pages, the set up page.

Set Up

Major Interactive - Before Final Presentation


* 3 light boxes.


* Arrange the boxes.
* Connect all the cables to the arduino board.


* Light test.


* Positioning the laser pointer stand, so the light will aim for the photo resistor.


* Final adjustment (threshold values and the position of the laser pointer).


* Set-up.

Laser Pointer Container

Major Interactive
* Unstable values received by the photo resistor.
* Using a laser pointer to shine on the photo resistor.


* Building stands for the laser pointer.
* Using the pattern of Flower of Life.
* In the process of cutting.


* After the cut out.


* Folding the stand.

* Using a laser pointer with cables (unassembled version).
* Hard to measure where the laser pointer's light falls on due to the size of the photo resistor.
* A swing hook is used to make the position of the laser pointer adjustable.


* Components : a swing hook, a laser pointer and a switch.


* Assembled.


* Stick the laser pointer on the stand.
* Switch and battery are placed inside.


* Inside look.

* Finished stand.
* Front and Top view.



* 3 stands.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Processing - Arduino - Transistor

Electronics - Last Assignment
* Develop from the previous assignment.


* Using the assignment done in the Processing class, the microphone input.
* Combining Processing (input) and Arduino (output).
* Depends on the loudness of the voice, the LED turns on and off (LED as ouput).
* The LED (LED as input) will then shine on an LDR (LDR as output).
* The LDR (LDR as input)  will then be a switch to turn on another gadget (gadget as output).


* Using a fan as the gadget.
* Does not work very well, unstable.


* Works with buzzer.


* Final scene.

* Video.


Alarmed Diary

Wearable Technologies - Soft Circuit Project
* Embedding soft circuit and joining techniques.

* Final Project - Alarmed Diary
- If the book is unzipped, the alarm sound is produced.


* A zipper is used as a switch.

* A notebook is used to simulate a diary.
* The cover us taken out.


* Cut a piece of cloth (measure according the size of the book, minus the binding space).


* Design the circuit look (Using the pattern of the tree branch, most diaries have a lot of flowery patterns).
* Draw the patterns on the aluminium foil and cut it.
* Place the aluminium foil on the cloth that has been cut before.


* Place the iron - on joining fabric below the aluminium foil.


* Place a piece of wax paper above the aluminium foil (Wax paper would not stick with the joining material).


* Iron on the wax paper.


* Take the wax paper out, the aluminium foil is now joined with the cloth.


* Test. 
* The LED lights up.

* Making a cover for the book using cloth.
* The zipper will be sewn on this cloth later.

* Cut out the unnecessary part.
* MISTAKE : Aluminium in the middle should not be the whole line, it should be divided into two parts (cut in the middle, two pieces of the aluminium  foil should not touch each other), otherwise, the current keeps running there.

* Sewing the zipper on the cloth.
* Front and back view.

* Sewing the cloth.
* Outside and inside look.


* In the process of sewing.


* Place the soft circuit inside the book.


* Battery is attached at the back of the book.
* LED lights up.


* Due to small contact points in the previous circuit, the shape is changed back to the ordinary circuit pattern, the rectangular pattern.


* Sewing done.

* Testing purpose (using an LED).
* LED is off when the zipper is closed and on when the zipper is opened.



* Attaching the buzzer, LED is removed.


* Video