Work for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program
Since receiving the PCBs and successfully soldering the board together I have been trying to rewrite code for the I2C port expander. This has been immensely difficult! The Inkplate Arduino Library makes considerable use of an “Mcp” class, which is written to work with the MCP23017 GPIO expander IC. These chips are quite difficult to […]
The boards arrived! Amazingly within an hour of one another. Based on the experience I think that JLCPCB is a better value. With shipping OSHPark was $55.50 for 3 boards. JLCPCB was $26.36 for 10 boards. Aside from a higher cost OSHPark also left sharp bits of tabs around the edges of the boards which […]
Over the last week I rerouted the traces in my PCB design. Following feedback during class that the auto-router feature in Eagle isn’t very smart I did manage to make some cleaner routing manually. As part of the process I went through each component and made sure they were placed a closely as possible to […]
Designing this board took considerably more time than I anticipated. I thought I was in a good starting place by having two reference designs from previous projects that repurposed Amazon Kindle displays and controlled them with an ESP32, Inkplate 6 and EPDiy. My first hurdle was after realizing that both reference designs make use of […]
For my final project in Homemade Hardware I would like to iterate on a piece I started last Spring that was a combined project for Jeff Feddersen’s Energy class and The Nature of Code with Dan Shiffman. The concept for the project was to grow a virtual plant, using L-Systems, on an E-Ink display using […]
Over the last week I took my PCB design from Eagle to Bantam Tools for PCB milling. I ended up having to mill the board twice. My first attempt had a short that I wasn’t able to locate. Milling on my second attempt went much better! Next I moved on to SMD soldering with solder […]
This week in Homemade Hardware I was re-introduced to creating circuit schematics and PCB designs using Autodesk Eagle. As part of a larger group project each member of the class will be creating a letter for an LED sign. For my circuit I am creating the letter “i”. My intent with the design is for […]
For the first assignment for Homemade Hardware I finished soldering my programming jig for an ATTiny85 microcontroller. With the finished jig I was able to burn the Arduino Bootloader to the IC, and subsequently upload custom Arduino sketches. Next the assignment was to breadboard out a circuit to control multiple LEDs using input from a […]
For Augmented Spaces this week I designed and developed an exhibit using ARKit on iOS. My initial concept was to use image anchors to make an imagined space visible that extends the world of a photograph. While doing image and 3D model research I came across an amazing resource of public domain artifacts through the […]
This week for Designing Club Culture I collected ten field recordings. I also listened through this Spotify playlist to select a track to distort the recordings into which will be due next week. Listening through the playlist I found myself drawn to tracks with less complexity, such as “Dance” by ESG and “Mystery of Love” […]