November 2010
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Ask the VC →
Could be a good blog for those seeking to start their own businesses.
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“Anytime there’s a business issue, the answer is to increase the quality.”
– Yvon Chouinard
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Sketch-a-Move -- Anab Jain and Louise Klinker
Via Chris Fahey for my IxD Fundamentals Studio class. Awesome video prototype. Here’s how they pulled it off.
johnnytv:
Here is another excellent example of the use of video for prototyping, by Anab Jain and Louise Klinker, both graduates of the Royal College of Art’s Design Interactions MA program. The project was also featured in Bill Buxton’s book “Sketching User Experiences”.
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“What we need to do to design is to look at the extremes. The middle will take...”
– Dan Formosa, in Objectified.
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Steven Heller links to our class project! →
Steven Heller linked to my class’s MoMA apps today in the Daily Heller! Proud! (My group’s project is the one at the bottom on the page.)
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Star Wars →
via JFlynn (who I don’t have a link for).
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The Wait →
Insightful piece about how the expectations we set for ourselves are more important than the expectations that others have of us.
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Physical Computing, Lab 9: Serial
Dare I say it? This was an easy one. Simple potentiometer set up and simple Arduino code generate the following serial output:
Pair that with some simple Processing code, and you generate this:
My only hiccup was when Processing needed me to input a different serial port name. I changed the [0] to a [1], and all was right in the world. Nice.
Nice business card. Good products too.
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Child Abuse Rate At Zero Percent In Lesbian... →
Awesome and unsurprising.
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Physical Computing, Lab 8: Motors
Today’s lab gave me trouble, but not from the coding: This time, I found the actual physical setups confusing. However, after much troubleshooting, checking and double-checking connections, etc., everything worked just as it should.
For those of you playing at home, view the lab here.
The first set up was for a motor and a potentiometer. My mistakes in this set up involved the...
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Matching bellwethers →
Liz asks: Does style matching extend beyond language to fashion? To food? To travel preferences? It would explain a great deal.
Doesn’t it? Who hasn’t had a friend whose personality, likes, and dislikes all change depending on the person he or she is dating?
bobulate:
People match one another’s language when speaking and do it more so when they’re happy:“When two people start a...
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Physical Computing, Lab 7: Processing II
Flying Snoopy with Ants!
Here’s the list of the Processing widgets created during this lab:
Shape
Swatches
Character
Animation
Square Lights
Swapper
Racetrack
Bounce Bounce Redux - with many thanks to Rob for helping me out with the logic!
Snowman
My Function
Shared Function
Animated World
It took me a while to get going on this lab, but I think I generally understand...
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