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EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING CLASS



I didn't have too much time to come up with ideas for this project, since I have been busy preparing for Design Dialogues coming up in a few weeks and I've focused on trying to complete final design interventions.

For this week's assignment, we had to use your programmer (HUZZAH32, ESP32 Feather) to program a circuit with a led and a button to do something. The circuit board, could be done as a shield, breadboard or vinyl cutter

I worked on the project after the Easter holidays once I had more time on my hands. I tried to integrate this assignment with my project and interests, so I browsed YouTube until I found something I was interested in.

Material needed:
  • Arduino uno board
  • Power cable
  • Ultrasonic sensor (HC SOR-4)
  • Some cables and breadboard


schematic


to be continued...

I couldn't find the material needed to make this project, so instead I am including the content from my third fabacademy challenge. The full documentation can be found here.

For this challenge, we are exploring how sound affects humans decisions.

Based on design ethics, we started discussing about the non-neutrality of design, boundaries between technology and design, how design choices influence the functionality of society and the re-creation of reality.

Our common areas of interest are music, games, communication, interactive design and low tech with the purpose of seeking new ways of relationship between humans and non-humans. Through this, we are developing an artifact that allows human interaction, guided by different sounds, creating a final output of sound-paintings. The human interaction (input) is about drawing and being guided by the sounds. The final output is the drawing itself.

This is the general sketch of our idea:

sketch

Build of materials
  • 15 x 24 cm
  • 4mm transparent acrylic panel
  • 20 x 30 cm copper vinyl cut sticker
  • 9 cables connecting board to Arduino/Playtronica
  • ESP32
  • Playtronica
  • Scrap MDF wood

    First off, we started prototyping a with scrap copper stickers and the ESP32 (left), then we moved on to an acrylic plaque with the design we wanted (right).

    prototype prototype



    This is the code we wrote in arduino to make the conductive copper make sounds, using Pure data (left). All the files are on the fabchallenge repo, in the files folder.

    prototype prototype

    View the final video of the project here:




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