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 […]
Last week we attended “Playtest Thursday” on the second floor of 370 Jay St with our games. I came away from the experience with some very specific feedback. Seeing a number of people play the game showed me things I didn’t anticipate. Some folks approached the cabinet and immediately treated it as a touch screen. […]
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 made progress fabricating my arcade cabinet. After finishing the design in Fusion360 I separated out which panels to CNC mill, such as the side panels, monitor frame, and leap motion controller holder. The other panels were rectangular and easy to cut by hand. Following our class workshop last week I […]
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 […]
For my midterm assignment in The New Arcade I wanted to create a hand tracking interface for a game I am developing as part of my thesis project. The game, intended as social commentary, puts the player in a first person experience of working on an assembly line sorting boxes in an Amazon style warehouse. […]
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 […]