Iffy Statements1_CM

Ladyada Exercise 5 Iffy Statements:

-I used a bigger breadboard and different jumper wires.

Making it do the opposite:

-For this to work, I just switched the conditional part of the If-Statements. And I also had too add another LED and another Resistor

Class Exercise 08-31

PWM:

-I changed the original code a little bit so it increases the amount of pulseWidth after every iteration.

Week 2 Wed. August 31, 2016 | In Class PWM Exercise

Wednesday 8/31 | In Class Arduino Exercise

LED Intensity 

Speaker Intensity

PWM & SOS Morse Code Class Exercise | 8/31/16

Morse Code Flash

If you can't view it directly here: https://goo.gl/photos/3fEmXfjHJJBqFDhz9

Week 2 Mon. August 29, 2016 | Arduino Lesson 5

Part 1

Homework 8/31

Exercise 5

Homework - 8.29.2016

Lady Ada Lesson 5

Karen does the ol' switcheroo.

Iffy Extra Credit

Karen gets lit.

Wednesday 8/30 | Homework

LED Exercises

Color

Resistor

Voltage

Homework and Iffy Extra Credit - August 29

Lesson 5 Homework



LED Homework

  


Iffy

8/29 assignments and 8/31 hw

8/29 Classwork and LED Exercise Homework

Class Assignment

LED Exercise

LED HW | Due 8/31/16

This HW explores dimming and brightening of LED by adjusting for resistors and the voltage going through the circuit. I couldn't find a potentiometer in my kit, so I couldn't finish the last part of this tutorial.

EXTRA CREDIT DONE!!!!!!!!

8/29 LED Tutorials

LED tut

tutorial 5

LED Tutorial

I feel that the tutorial gave me a pretty solid grasp of the Kirchhoff Voltage Law and the relationship between volts, resistance, and current (V = IR).

I couldn't do the last part though because I don't think we have potentiometers in our starter kits, although maybe I just couldn't find it.

Same voltage and resistance.

Same voltage, different resistance.

Different voltage, same resistance.

Monday 8/29 | Lady Ada Arduino Tutorial 5

Class Exercise 8/29/16

Part 1:

https://goo.gl/photos/mAnpSFg2PTZQkbMX9

I was expecting Arduino to prinln() in the bottom "output" command line on the bottom, the program was printing out to the Serial monitor instead.

Part 2:

Class exercise 08-29

Ladyada Lesson 5:

-It didn't work at first: once I connected the Arduino with the USB cable, the LED turned on immediately, so I thought that maybe by pressing the button it will go off, but it didn't. Then I noticed that there was something wrong with the position of the pushbutton (it also said on the website to pay attention to the orientation of the switch.) So I fixed this by changing the position to horizontal.

Arduino - Lesson 5

Arduino Inputs

I struggled with the parts that involved println();. Nothing was being printed to the sketch. I also struggled with trying to translate the locations of the inputs and outputs and everything from the tutorial to our Arduino board, so I ended up with my breadboard kind of awkwardly on top of the microcontroller.

Final Light Setup

LED HW

8/24 In Class Exercise

In class work and my out of class struggle

This is the work I did in class.

This is where I am stuck on lesson 5.

Alachua County Public Library Manga Guide to Electricity Link

Here is an option to acquire the Manga Guide to Electricity through the public library:
https://catalog.aclib.us/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Keyword&term=manga%20guide%20to%20electricity&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=1

You can get a library card at the downtown location and access it online:
401 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601

Wednesday 8/24 | Homework

Appliance
Wattage
Volts
Amps (Watts/Volts = Amps)
Cost

Microwave
1500
120
(1500/120) 12.5

Toaster
800
120
(800/120) ~6.66

Coffee Pot
975
120
(975/120) 8.125

Mini Fridge
161
115
(161/115) 1.4

Dishwasher
1200
120
(1200/120) 10

How many of those appliances can you plug into one outlet without tripping a breaker? Please do this mathematically rather than through direct experience.

A standard 15 amp outlet could potentially handle several combinations of appliances as long as they do not exceed that 15 amp limit. Examples including the toaster + mini fridge, the coffee pot + mini fridge, etc. However, you would not want to put the dishwasher and the coffee pot together, nor would you want to have the dishwasher and the microwave active and using the same outlet.

What is the directional relationship between charge and current?

An overabundance of electrons creates a negatively charged substance as electrons themselves carry a negative charge. A surplus of protons create a positively charged substance, as protons carry a positive charge. Electrons can move across a conductor in order to produce a current of electricity.

August 24 HW

• Can Opener     - 168w / 120v = 1.4a
• Con. Oven       - 1150w / 120v = 9.58a
• Microwave      - 900w / 120v = 7.5a
• Coffee Maker  - 650w / 120v = 5.42a
• Toaster            - 800w / 120v = 6.66a

I could use the toaster and coffee maker together without tripping a standard 15a electrical outlet. (6.66a + 5.42a = 12.08a)

An electric current is a flow of electric charges. In an electric circuit, this charge is sometimes carried by moving electron wires. It can also be carried by ions in an electrolyte, or by both ions and electrons such as in a plasma. 

Did the can experiment but I used my cat instead of my hair because she was there and why not.

Took apart a DVD player...

8/29 Homework

Amperes, Voltage, and Wattage Calculation

Fridge: 4.5 Amps, 115 Volts, 518 Watts
Microwave: 14 Amps, 120 Volts, 1680 Watts
Dishwasher: 10 Amps, 120 Volts, 1200 Watts
Crock Pot: 2 Amps, 120 Volts, 250 Watts
Electric Beater: 1.8 Amps, 120 Volts, 220 Watts

I have no means of figuring out the cost of my electricity, since my apartment complex takes care of utility bills and won't give us details unless we explicitly ask. However, I have calculated the KWH for each appliance based on a 24 hour period. Fridge = 12.4 KWH, Microwave = 40.3 KWH, Dishwasher = 28.8 KWH, Crock Pot = 6 KWH, and Beater = 5.3 KWH.

Most small kitchen appliances seem to be able to be plugged in to one outlet without risk of tripping a breaker. The crock pot and beater both are only 2 amps. Even the fridge is fairly low in amperes, and could safely be connected to the same breaker as the microwave. However, the microwave is the riskiest appliance, and uses the most electricity out of all of them when in use (14 amps). The dishwasher cannot be on the same breaker as it.

A current of electricity is created when electrons move across a conductor from areas that contain a positive atomic charge, towards an area that contains a negative atomic charge. For awhile it was believed that current ran in the same direction that the electrons were flowing, but it is actually the opposite. Because electrons contain a negative charge, the actual current of energy flows in the opposing direction to which the electrons are traveling.

Static Electricity Experiment:

Homework for August 29

Toaster oven: 120Vac 60Hz 1400W
Blender: 120Vac 60Hz 3.7A
Rice cooker: 120V 60Hz 500W
Refrigerator: 115V 60Hz 9.1 F.L. AMPS
Coffee pot: 900 Watts 120 VAC 60Hz 7.5 Amps

All the appliances are currently plugged in right now and nothing is switched on the breaker. The only time I noticed when the circuit breaker trips is when the vacuum is plugged in the main lobby area.


BCM Building Breaker Box: 120-240 A.C. Voltage
The main distribution panel is locked up due to safety reasons and my boss doesn't want any messing with it...

Valence electrons jump between molecules in an object/ volume. At the point when an object/volume gains a bigger number of electrons than at its ordinary state, it turns out to be emphatically charged. When it has an absence of electrons, it turns out to be adversely charged. Electrons will move from a positive to a negative object/volume to accomplish parity inside the volume. The heading of the current is inverse of that in which the electrons move, in this manner negative to positive.


Experience Static Electricity with Crazy Extreme Balloon

Wireless Computer Mouse Circuit Board

Week 1 Homework

Circuit Board:

My father has done air and electric for longer than I've been alive, so I asked him if he had any spare circuit boards. This board is for an ice machine.

Home Appliances:

Watts = Amps x Volts

Laptop - 4.62 A, 19.5 V, 90.09 W
Oscillating Fan - couldn't find its specifications, but standard house fans use about 100 W
32" LED TV - 48 W
PS3 - 70 W
Ceiling light - 75 W

Overall it's about 383 Watts. GRU would charge $0.042 per Watt.  To keep these appliances on for 24 hours would cost $16.08.

And this is the distribution panel at my parents' home. The box on the right is for a generator. The small box on the bottom with the red lights is a surge protector. The amperage is 200 A, which my father tells me is standard for residential stuff.

Homework for 8-29

Max amps: 22000

Dimmable lamp: 250v -110v, 50-60Hz, 100W max

Toaster oven: 120v 60Hz 1150W

Toaster 120v 60 Hz 750W

Air purifier 120v 60 Hz 55W

Emerson blender 120v 60 hZ 200W

Balloon static experiment

Homework - 8.24.2016

Dissected Nerf Walkie Talkie.

• Coffee Pot  -  650 w / 120 v = 5.41 a
• Toaster  -  800 w / 120 v = 6.66 a
• Rice Cooker  -  350 w / 120 v = 2.91 a
• Nutri Ninja Blender  -  900 w / 240 v = 3.75 a
• Microwave  -  900 w / 120 v = 7.5 a

I could simultaneously use the coffee pot, toaster, and rice cooker without tripping a standard 15a electrical outlet. (5.41a + 6.66a + 2.91a = 14.98a)

Valence electrons hop between atoms in a substance. When a substance acquires more electrons than at its normal state, it becomes positively charged. When it has a lack of electrons, it becomes negatively charged. Electrons will move from a positive to a negative substance to achieve balance within the substance(s). The direction of the current is opposite of that in which the electrons move, therefore negative to positive.

I did a separate experiment where I statically charged a plastic straw with my hair and made it move without touching it. View with audio for full experience here. <3

Appliances HW | Due 8/29

Appliances & Their Electrical properties:

Acer Aspire Laptop battery output: 19V, 2.37A , about 45 W

Moto 360 Smartwatch wireless charging :  5V (Standard USB),0.5A, 2.5 W

OnePlus X Android phone battery: 5V, 2A, 10 W

Lamp:12V, 3A, 36W

Samsung TV: 110V, 2.5A, 550W

Current is the moving flow of electrons across a circuit and the abundance of electrons creates a negative charge, while an abundance of protons creates a positive charge. 

CRAZY EXTREME Balloon HOMEWORK

5 Appliances HW

So while looking around I found my Laptop uses 20 volts and 4.25 amps and that comes to about 45 watts by multiplying the two values. Next was my fridge and that was 115 volts and 6 amps, that was 690 watts. My microwave only gave me the information for 1.5 KW and that makes since microwaves do use a lot of power to heat up food. For my TV I had to do some internet searching because I could not find any of the information on the TV, it had around 135 volts and 1.208 amps which gives us 163.08 watts. Lastly I choose my blender and the only information it had was 450 watts.

For the next part of the Homework I looked at my breaker box in the apartment and all of the breakers say 10,000 AIC and 120/240 Vac. Vac stands for volts I had to look that up. AIC stands for a single instant surge of amps that are allowed to pass through before a breaker switches it off. So knowing all of this I can safely plug in all of my appliances into one breaker except for the microwave since that uses a high amount of power at one time. I hope this is right.

Where can we find pages 1-36?

Hey peeps does anyone know where those first pages of the manga are on the Plaza page?

Lady Ada - Lesson 3

The final product of the third Lady Ada tutorial.

Blinking Lights

Rodrigo G's Light Show

This is the video of our assignment in class.

Wed__08/24 Class Exercises

Ladyada Ex. 2: Blink

- I changed the PIN number to 12 and also used a different variable name. The delay parameter I used is different from the one in the tutorial.

Ladyada Ex. 3: Breadboard and LEDs

-I used my own breadboard setup for this.

Ladyada Ex. 3: Breadboard and Blinking LEDs

-I wired the negative side of the LEDs to GND on the Breadboard which was then wired to the GND on thee Arduino

Ladyada Ex. 3: Breadboard and Alternating Blinking LEDs

-I was able to make the LEDs alternate. I had to manually set the PIN voltage to LOW or HIGH after some delay. I do not know if there is a way to program "multithreading" in Arduino...

8/24/16

Week 1 day 2

Week 1 Wed. August 24, 2016 | Lady Ada Arduino Exercise 3

Wednesday 8/24 | Lady Ada Arduino Tutorials 2 & 3

Lady Ada Arduino Tutorials 3 and having the lights blink at different frequencies.

Code snippet:

Lady Ada Arduino Exercise 3

https://vimeo.com/180098194

Lady Ada Exercise 3 - 8.24.2016

my computer wife, Karen.

Party Karen lets her hair down.

Lemon Circuit - 8.22.2016

Lemon Magic

Describe a piece of art or an interactive piece that used electronics as a medium that made an impression on you or that you remember.

I cannot find a link to documentation of the piece to save my life, but in Time Based Media, we discussed one of Jack Stenner's pieces in which a sensor or a camera in the gallery was linked to a receptor in some dilapidated house in Gainesville. For every person who walked into the gallery space, someone walked in or out of the house holding a red balloon. The video feed was then live streamed back to the gallery. I have no idea what it's called, but if Jack's around, you could ask him, I guess.

Describe any previous experiences with electronics and sensors.

I have experience programming in processing.

What do you expect to learn or what sorts of ideas do you hope to realize with the knowledge that you learn in this class?

A lot of my work deals with theories in memory and personality. I really want to make a piece that submerges the viewer into a different place and time, real or fantastic, activated by human touch and interaction.

How to Make a Blog Post

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the 2016 Sensors for Artists course and to the blog where you will share assignments, concepts, and notes. This blog is here to help with grading your assignments but also as your sounding board for anything relevant you would like to contribute to the site!

On that note, a quick how-to on posting to the blog with the proper tag to make everything easy!

From the blog's web url: https://sensorbased.blogspot.com/

Click the New Post link in the upper right hand corner.

From your Google Blogger home page, just click the name of our blog "Sensor-Based Electronic Art" and click the "New Post" button on the left-hand side of the page:



It's also very useful for everybody for you to tag your posts with the title of the assignment and with your name. You can do so by clicking "Labels" on the right-hand side of the post composition page and then typing out the tag you would like to include with your post. This allows you to see all of your posts by clicking your name tag from the blog home page.

1st Arduino Tutorial

Monday 8/22 | Lemon Experiment & Questions

Lemon Experiment

Questions

Describe a piece of art or an interactive experience that used electronics as a medium that made an impression on you or that you remember.

I remember when I was younger, we visited Universal Studios and went to the Barney area. Inside, they had a huge play area with a lot of interactive toys. One of the things I remember that really intrigued me was the streams of water that were lined up like harp strings and had various colors. When you touched one of the streams, it would illicit a sound as if you were playing a stringed instrument. I don't know why that particular moment stuck with me, but that feeling of enchantment is something I would like to reflect when working with electronics and sensors. 

Describe any previous experiences with electronics and sensors.

I have no previous experience working with electronics and sensors, save for interacting with your everyday sensors, such as grocery store doors or streetlights.  

What do expect to learn or what sorts of ideas do you hope to realize with the knowledge that you learn in this class?


I would like to learn how to utilize electronic platforms in new ways that would continue to bridge the gap between imagination and reality, as well as connecting people and ideas through animating the inanimate. 

Wednesday 8/24 | Lady Ada Arduino Tutorials 3

Tutorial 3

Week 1 Mon. August 22, 2016 | Lemons + Questions

Class Activity

In class today we lit up a small LED light using only lemons, a penny, a nail, and alligator clips.

Discussion Questions

1. Describe a piece of art or an interactive experience that used electronics as a medium that made an impression on you or that you remember:

One thing that comes to mind is the FAO Schwarz interactive piano in NYC. I'm assuming it uses pressure sensors to figure out when someone is standing on a key in order to light up and play the correct note.

2. Describe any previous experiences with electronics and sensors:

The only experience I have with electronics is being an owner of many. When something breaks, I attempt to fix it or at least pretend that I know what I'm doing. I have no experience with working with sensors.

3.What do expect to learn or what sorts of ideas do you hope to realize with the knowledge that you learn in this class?

I am looking forward to learning how to make a lot of cool things happen with Arduino and the coding that comes along with it. 

First Day Questions

I remember seeing quite a few pieces of artwork that utilize sensors and electronics as the gist of their presentation in the past. However, a couple of them really stood out to me. I remember reading about an artist who utilized motion detecting sensors in his artwork while I was in WARP. I can't recall the name of the artist, but he made mechanical arms and apparatus that, whenever someone would approach, would make a threatening jab or gesture at the viewer. It was an interactive piece that commented on peoples' inclination to view artwork close-up. The other piece I distinctly remember was being shown in the Palm Springs art museum in California last year. It was a screen made up of a multitude of LED lights, and the lights were programmed to turn off and on in tandem with the movements of birds presented to it in video format. So, it looked like there were silhouettes of birds flying through the lights.

I do not have much experience tinkering with electronics and sensors myself. I have just pulled apart and added a couple parts to my desktop computer a couple times. However, we do encounter sensors in our everyday lives. Stop lights, pedestrian crossing lights, automatic doors, etc. keep things in order without constant supervision, and make things easier for everybody.

From this class, I expect to learn how different electronic sensors and devices can applied and work with one another to make something happen. A sort of small introduction to robotics. I hope to also get a little more experience and variety with coding and how programs work. None of the projects I have done have really had much interactivity with the viewer. I think it would be interesting to get some ideas for how I could implement this in future projects, and for the projects we will be making in the class.

Day 1 Q's

Impactful sensor art:
The only sensor based art I have seen in person is that gimmicky one where you dance in front of a wall and it kinda makes you look like an Apple commercial. Not that impactful...

Experience with sensors:
Calisthenics in middle school gym class, then measuring our heartbeat with a handheld monitor. Also the beeping dashboard when it don't put my seat belt on.

Learning hopes:
I hope that using sensors could help me in the process of making pragmatic Eco art.

Monday__8/22 Post-CM

-In Digital Design I received a pretty cool FPGA board that had a lot os switches, 7-segment LEDs, single green LEDs, buttons, and lots of input/output slots (USB, SD card, VGA, power, etc.) In class lecture, we were discussing about the week's lab and the professor said that somebody was able to program the game Pong on the FPGA. The buttons were programmed to move the paddle up/down, and the VGA output would be connected to a screen, as if the FPGA was some kind of console. Based on this I thought that I should try programming Breakout on the FPGA for extra credit. But, unfortunately, I ran out of time so I ended up doing a collage of the same picture that was displayed on the screen.

-In Circuits I, I worked with resistors, capacitors, transistors, voltage, current, inductors, AC and DC currents, and building circuits on a big breadboard. In Digital Logic and Computer Systems I worked with a CPLD board, using Quartus software and an Altera chip. Towards the end, I used VHDL to program the CPLD board for State Machines, ALUs, Microprocessors, Traffic Light Controllers, and reading from a ROM chip (I also had to program the ROM using hexadecimal values.) In Digital Design, I worked with an FPGA and I designed and built a microprocessor that consisted of Registers, Program Counter, Default input values and user-defined input values, Multiplexers, Clock, Buses, etc. I also used the FPGA to output a picture onto a screen.

8/22 Class Discussion

- The first thing that comes to mind when I think about an interactive experience is a game that I played while waiting in line for a ride in a theme park. It used touch and let you play with others in the line.
- I have worked on a few small and very basic projects using circuits.
- I know that the Arduino is capable of doing limitless things and I hope to learn how to use it and I'm especially looking forward to learning how to program.

Week 1 Questions

Describe a piece of art or an interactive experience that used electronics as a medium that made an impression on you or that you remember
I remember when I was younger, I went to a science museum where there was a large plasma ball. The plasma inside the ball would follow the finger tips of people

Describe any previous experiences with electronics and sensors.
I've never had experience and sensors, unless video games like the Nintendo Wii count.

What do expect to learn or what sorts of ideas do you hope to realize with the knowledge that you learn in this class

Hopefully I get to learn how code to some extent and more about how electronics work. I might want to incorporate electronics into my work in the future.

First Questions

Questions:
A piece of art or interactive experience that uses electronics:

Besides the seniors projects from last year. There was this is one piece in the university gallery I saw that used black lights and lights.

Previous experience with sensors:

I made a remote control from a kit for the TV as a child. You program the remote by code to match the brand of the television set. Does put a computer together count for sensors?

Learning/ideas:

Kind of excited to learn more about sensors and electronics. I'm interested in glitch art so maybe I'll learn how to make glitch sound or make something glitch with Arduino.

First Questions

Questions:
A piece of art or interactive experience that uses electronics:

Besides the seniors projects from last year. There was this is one piece in the university gallery I saw that used black lights and lights.

Previous experience with sensors:

I made a remote control from a kit for the TV as a child. You program the remote by code to match the brand of the television set. Does put a computer together count for sensors?

Learning/ideas:

Kind of excited to learn more about sensors and electronics. I'm interested in glitch art so maybe I'll learn how to make glitch sound or make something glitch with Arduino.

First Class Discussion Aug 22

First Class Discussion

As far as interactive experiences or devices, video game hardware such as controllers are full of sensors that not only read input, but are experimenting with picking up touch commands, sound, and heat.
I have never really had much experience working with sensors personally, so i'm looking forward to getting to work with them in this class, as well as learning the basics of he code behind the applications of those sensors. 

Aug 22, 2016 - Discussion - Xiaoxi Zheng

I recently visited the John & Marble Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Inside, there was a contemporary piece in which it utilizes physical computing by outputting audio cues from a face assembled from industrial objects. When a viewer steps on a foot pedal, the audio produced a seemly random mixture of cries and industrial robotic sounds. This installation was part of Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art. This special exhibition "considers the relationship between mind, body and spirit".

I have no previous experience with sensors other than the traditional mouse, keyboard, display combination. I've attempted to create something simple through the VR medium that incorporated head tracking. From another class I took, people took advantage of the Brain-Computer-Interface in which they used it to produce 3D audio.

Joining this class without any hardware background seems like a challenge. Ultimately I want to use this class as an opportunity to create something that can express the ever complicated human-robot relationship. I look forward to piecing together something neat while I do some "soul searching".

First Class

Questions:

• A piece of art or interactive experience that uses electronics:

I can't think of any works that I've seen that've used sensors, but I can think of plenty of everyday interactions. My laptop is an interactive experience. Automated lights, sinks, and hand-dryers are somewhat more passive, but still interactive.

• Previous experience with sensors:

I made a very rudimentary remote-control car in middle school; the sensor was just whether or not the battery was connected to the motor by a spring clip, which I did manually. I'm not sure if that counts as a sensor.

• Learning/ideas:

I don't know much of anything about the hardware of electronics, so learning anything would be good. As for ideas, I really like Arthur Ganson's work, specifically his Machine with Oil. It's more intended to be a kinetic sculpture and doesn't use electronics, but I mostly like the idea of a machine that exists for its own pleasure, a machine that has autonomy and self-interest.

First Day of Class

https://vimeo.com/179819144

Lemons/Disscusion 08-22-2016

Today in class we hooked up a bunch of lemons together and made a complete circuit to power up a LED.

Also there is an electronic sensor that I come into contact everyday and that is my video game controller. It is a wireless controller so the buttons I push are the input and the output are the signals to the console. This class is my first time ever working with sensors.