This week was our first meeting for Live Web. I am excited for this course for a number of reasons, most significantly that I want to learn more about facilitating real-time collaboration online. Toward the beginning of class we were asked to consider what kinds of media we consume live. Things like sports, concerts, or […]
For my freeform project in Energy I have been working to consolidate what I learned from replacing the firmware on my Tuya based smart plug into a GitHub repository. I have titled the repo Tuya-Arduino and it is online here. This was my first time creating a GitHub repository so I have been learning a […]
Over the last week I have made considerable of progress on my Solar powered fractal tree. Enclosure The bamboo plywood from Inventables arrived! Mai Claro, Daniel Ryan, Benjamin Moll, and a number of other ITP students helped to get me up and running for my first time on the laser cutter. I cut initially out […]
For my final project in The Nature of Code and Energy I am constructing a fractal plant, running on Arduino, that will reside on an e-paper display and be powered by the sun. Over the last few weeks I have made progress sourcing components and getting the basic circuitry assembled following my previous post with […]
While developing the concept for my final project, a solar powered virtual plant, I have been considering whether integrating a genetic algorithm would be useful. Already I have been planning to include some randomness to the generation of fractal trees through a random seed, however lets take a moment here to explore how a genetic […]
For the final project in “Nothing” we have been prompted to choose a topic that is rooted in the cultural, sociological, or philosophical dilemmas of representation. Considering this lens there are a few broad topics I am interested in exploring: The “Other” Over time I have become more certain of my belief in pacifism; that […]
Bill of materials The bill of materials for the solar fractal plant includes: Waveshare 5.65″ ePaper Module ($76) Voltaic 2 Watt 6 Volt Solar Panel ($29) Arduino Nano 33 IoT ($19) Lithium Ion Battery – 3.7v 2000mAh ($12.50) Adafruit Universal USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger ($10) 3.5mm / 1.1mm to 5.5mm / […]
This week I reproduced a fractal tree on an e-paper display using an Arduino Nano 33 IoT . Getting things working working in the Arduino IDE involved additional libraries including Geometry.h to allow working with points, rotations, and coordinate transformations. The Waveshare 5.65″ 7-Color e-paper display took some effort to get working but was helped […]
For this week’s assignment in The Nature of Code I learned about coding movement for autonomous agents with the key movement characteristics breaking down into seeking objects and avoiding objects. The goal of this assignment is being able to program behaviors for how individual objects respond to their environment and allowing that to happen in […]
Virtual Plant Plants are responsible for doing a tremendous amount of work on Earth using sunlight to power their metabolic process. They have also been shown to have a calming effect on people and personally helped to lift my mood in an otherwise dreary NYC urban life. For my solar project I want to pay […]
