Author: Ryan Rotella
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Lab: I2C/SPI
For this week’s lab, I focused on the aspect that served my joint Physical Computing-ICM final project: data collection. I am working with Trusha Chandan and Rajeshwari Kotel on developing a wearable device that uses proximity detection, audio recording, and machine learning to help remember people’s names after first time social interactions. To acheive this,…
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Listening and Recording with P5.js
As part of our eventual Final Project for ICM and Physical Computing, Trusha and I decided to use this ICM Homework to test how well P5.js can listen and record conversation. We want to do this for our larger goal of using technology to help people remember interactions and make note-taking social interactions seamless and…
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The Upside Down V.2
Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/8JmpBweFV Concept As noted in the previous post about this assignment, I wanted to make a scary alternate reality of a live video with ml5.js, showing an “Upside Down” world parallel to ours. This is an homage to the Netflix hit series, Stranger Things. I wanted the altered video to feel ominous and surreal. Breakdown I also…
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Two-Way Serial Communication
The first part of the lab served as a reminder from last week’s lab, reinforcing how serial communication works between Arduino and P5. I set up the potentiometers and switch on my breadboard. I set up the code in Arduino and P5.js respectively. First, I tested to make sure my inputs and code was working…
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Work in Progress: The Upside Down
Assignment Prompt “Work in pairs. Due in 2 weeks. Create and/or manipulate an image or video at the pixel level to create an alternative of the reality depicted in the source image. Describe in 1-3 keywords how your image feels different from the source image. For next week submit your work in progress and be…
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Synthetic Media: 2.907 kWh per 1,000 inferences
Concept During our conversation in class last Wednesday, I felt a tension about AI and making art with it. The tension stems from the fact that AI image and video generation use an inordinate amount of electricity. The title of the video, 2.907 kWh per 1,000 inferences, is a reference to a study done by…
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PComp Lab: Week 7, Serial Communication
Lab: Intro to Asynchronous Serial Communications As a reprieve from our midterm work, I enjoyed digging deeper into how our computer and other computers can interact with microcontrollers. This part of the lab was a straightforward setup of how data gets communicated serially. The initial view of the data was all cluttered, and I welcomed…
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Midterm: Ghost Wheeze
Concept A Halloween themed prank toy that uses servo motors to pull cable ties down on a Febreze bottle’s trigger at the press of a button. There are two modes for our interactive Ghost Cough piece: one, a gambling mode where a user may or may not get sprayed; two, a sampling mode where a…
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Week 7: Smashing Graphics
Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/pyzh7sjFR Trying to figure out how to add another canvas with CreateGraphics() was difficult. Eventually, I understood how to make it appear once, but how do I match up a new graphic with an object that I’m deleting? After a few hours, the answer laid in variables. I saved the last coordinates of a…
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Digital Playthings: AI Chatbots, Dating, and Who is Playing Who
Prompt: These days, AI’s increasing prevalence on the internet makes it more difficult to find any novel use of it. If there is a novel use, all the massive tech companies swoop on it and either replicate it to the nth degree or wall it off for their own private, opaque uses. A lot of…
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