I knew I wanted to create something graphic or sculptural, and I first considered Matisse (especially his paper cut-out work):

But I settled on Spanish Basque…

My project this week has two artistic inspirations: a butterfly print by Andy Warhol (see image displayed on the computer screen below) and traditional batik printing used in Southeast Asia.  In batik printing, a wax resistance technique is used to create multiple images of the same shape across a piece of cloth.…

I never had a terrific talent at painting or drawing by hand. In fact, I'm really bad at both of them. For some reason when I start playing with digital tools like Omnigraffle or Photoshop, though, I seem to much better understand shape, color, and composition (or at least, better compared to my physical drawing abilities).

So I tried to combine my love for web design with a real, physical product. I can't pretend to be terrifically knowledgable about contemporary painters or…

For our first lab assignment, we needed to make a name tag that was inspired by an artist. This immediately posed a problem for me: there are many artists that truly inspire me, but very few of them are in the visual arts-- most of them are composers and musicians! Oh well, if music inspires me, then so be it: my artist inspiration would be J.S. Bach himself. With an idea in mind, I made a 3D prototype on my computer using Blender (…

When I began brainstorming for this assignment I was thinking very heavily in two dimensions.

Looking for paintings that would lend themselves to laser and vinyl cutting I thought of Kandinsky's later work, and it was Kandinsky's involvement with the Bauhaus movement that triggered my memory of the Bauhaus building in Dessau that would lend itself perfect to a name tag.

I was initially tempted to get carried away and build the full…

I grew up on the east coast loving camping and hiking and all things outdoors - my family would visit up and down the eastern coast from Maine down to Florida to go camping and experience the different outdoor scenes each place had to offer. Ansel Adams' photography was what first introduced me to the natural beauty of the western half of the United States. My first year out here in California, I visited Yosemite National Park - a place I had seen time and time again in Adams'…

Group

Joy Wong Daniels (LDT MA student, School of Education) [www.joywongdaniels.com]

Anna Ly (LDT MA student, School of Education) [www.stanford.edu/~akly]

Adam Selzer (LDT MA student, School of Education) [www.veryverysilly.com]

Jeff Kessler (MS student, Mechanical Engineering) […

I got a "Millenium Edition" electronic game of Scattergories from Goodwill.  What follows are the pictures from taking it apart, salvaging the speaker, and getting Claire's help to hook it up to an Arduino board that can modulate the voltage to play notes!  (I programmed in the Westminster Chimes.)

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I took apart a light up yoyo.  When functioning, the yoyo would flash it's led when spun sufficiently quickly.

Taking the yoyo apart revealed a simple mechanism.  There was a button cell battery, a spring and an LED.  When the yoyo vibrates, energy is transferred to the spring.  When the spring oscillates, it connects…

The electronic that I chose to break apart was a camera. The battery was broken so couldn't turn on the camera. This camera once belonged to Mariel so thanks for letting me rip it apart!…

I took apart a random broken gadget that I got from Andrea or maybe Betsy.  It had a switch, an LED, a mic, along with resistors and other components.  I was a bit lost about what to do, until Claire suggested using the mic as a sound sensor.  I took apart an existing sound sensor to figure out how that worked, then stuck my mic in there.  And it worked!  Kind of.

Before disassembling.…

This week we were told to bring in broken electronics and I chose an old bike computer to sacrifice. It was both old and obsolete. First I took apart the casing revealing an LCD screen and two silver contacts/buttons. The circuit board consisted of lots of little resistors,a capacitor, the…

John Brunhaver

Sam and I have broken a few helicopters.  The plastic piece that balances the rotor blades and prevents the top blade from intersecting the lower blade isn't very robust.

Here is the helicopter:

Removed the plastic casing:

Removed the…

In lab last week, I got to take apart an old, broken Epson inkjet printer. Here's a picture of it before the dismantling of it:

And some pictures of the progress of taking it apart...…

For this assignment, I dissected a toy helicopter. The helicopter couldn't fly anymore since the part keeping the rotor blades straight broke. Here is what it looked like before I took it apart:

Removing the cover and the base to reveal what's inside:…

Samantha Brunhaver

John Brunhaver

Outline:

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Soldering the headers

Electrical connections

MIDI sample code 1

Finding the sample spec

MIDI sample code 2

Challenges



In addition to our guide written here, there is a lot of information about getting started with the instrument shield here ->…

Today, we soldered GoGoSense, a simple, plug-and-play sensor device.

Materials Used:

• GoGoSense PCB
• 68 ohm resistors
• 1.5 kilo ohm resistors
• 330 ohm resistor
• 100 nf capacitor
• 10 uF capacitor
• 3.6V Zener Diode
• Blue…

 
By Paul Williams, Tarun Pondicherry and Vipul S Redey

Video: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06iHBy5o-f8

We interviewed a precocious elementary school-going girl, Nika, to find out about her likes and dislikes. The crux of what we heard from her was that:


1. 

2. She loved animals - Specifically penguins, dolphins and horses

3. Her…

Robert’s Rockin’ Rocket

Betsy and Renee Try Out Rocket

Pictures of Design

Robert’s Drawing of Rocket…