Author: Ryan Rotella
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Solar SatTrack: Energy/Surveillance Final
Group Concept We want to construct an antenna that is powered by a Voltaic battery that recharges with solar energy. With this solar-powered antenna, we want to capture radio signals using a Raspberry Pi and Software Defined Radio (SDR) accessories/software and transmit them to a website we will design with art to visualize what is…
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Surveilling the Blockchain
The two readings on how AdTech, private data selling, and the government using these to leverage an unprecedented amount of surveillance unsettled me. I knew things were bad, but that really drilled down a visceral sense of where we’re at in the surveillance game right now. I may be a drop in the ocean but…
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Solar Radio check-in
Accomplished this past week Implemented USB-C circuit that can read voltage level of Voltaic battery Discovered issue with Arduino timing out was not battery related but meant that we needed to pay $7 for Shiftr Linked Google Drive to Raspberry Pi via Google Cloud Console and Pi CLI –checked out a Pi from the shop…
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Surveillance Capitalism and Me
Prompt Instagram Ad Examination In my internet experience, I have either become numb to the ads served up to me or my AdBlocker/YouTube Premium prevents me from seeing the more noticeable stuff. However, I noticed the ads I see the most common while online is on Instagram. On Instagram, ads are served as camouflaged posts…
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Worker Surveillance and BaBump
P5 sketch Inspired by the topic of worker surveillance and the inefficacy of hiding: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/SXoeb5_Jl Prompt Pick a surveillance art artwork either discussed or that you find, and review it. Discuss the methods and technologies used. Does it have an argument or a point of view? If so, how effective is it? Extra cred: reach…
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Solar Radio, Week 2
What did we do: —Created rough flow charts for hardware and software architecture —Will successfully got the Arduino and Raspberry Pi talking via Serial Communication —Integrated the WifiNina library with Nano 33 IOT, learned through Tom Igoe and ITP resources —Learning MQTT – https://tigoe.github.io/mqtt-examples/ —Figuring out test server setup – maybe use https://www.shiftr.io/try/ —Have all ordered…
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Requests
Coming into the Requests assignment, I feel pretty numb about being surveilled. As someone who’s been “online” and an active user of social media for almost a decade, I already have an awareness that I’m being tracked. I’ve always balanced out any anxiety of being tracked with the knowledge that my data is a drop…
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Project: Solar Radio
Group Ryan Rotella, Surya Nareddi, and William Fang Concept We want to construct an antenna that is powered by a Voltaic battery that recharges with solar energy. With this solar-powered antenna, we want to capture radio signals using a Raspberry Pi and Software Defined Radio (SDR) accessories/software and transmit them to a website we will…
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Solar: Microcontroller Basics
I sucessfully powered an Arudino with a solar panel. I hooked up wires to the barrel of one of the panels in the solar cart. Then, I pressed the on button for the power strip powering the grow light. However, I tried to give power to a circuit from my PComp final last semester, but…
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Hand Crank Projector
Concept v. Reality Pictured above are: 1.) our inspiration for our hand-cranked projector, an early 20th century camera that required more physical energy to operate; 2.) our loose design for our projector with electronics encased in a clear acrylic box powered by a hand crank, shooting focused light at a caustic lens, casting an image.…
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