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Etching Printed Circuit Boards

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm

Interactive installations often require electronics and ours is not an exception. One way to produce the needed electronics is to solder all your components onto experimental circuit boards. This means you have to create all the electrical circuits yourself using … Continue reading →

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TEDx Delft Soundscape

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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For the local TEDx Delft event [November 7, 2011], we were asked to transform a set of five bright red pieces of furniture into an interactive installation – the same pieces as used for earlier projects (see earlier posts). After … Continue reading →

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Technical studies: Grasshopper

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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In this technical study, Sander Boer helped us out with getting to know Grasshopper. Since he is an expert in ‘GH’ he told us how to print a certain object on a surface, and afterwards make a mesh of it … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical Studies | Tagged grasshopper, Holy grail

Idice by Bas and Niels

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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Our first workshop was about making a electronic rolling dice. We used an arduino to program the dice’s behavior and used a printboard with led’s and resistors to actually built the led. In the picture you can see the dice … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical Studies | Tagged Arduino, Dice, Electronic, Holy grail, Idice

Rhino 3D models – group C

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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The result of our 4 design together was pretty chaotic. We started the assignment with our own workplace as inspiration, but it evolved into some kind of sewer pipeline world.

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Light Signals

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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Using a motion sensor, a CO2 sensor, a temperature and a light sensor, we are monitoring our studio space @ Science Centre TU Delft. A small installation makes use of light signals to communicate the sensor values through the room … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical Studies | Tagged LED par, Light Signals, Pachube

multimode dice

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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For our first technical studies assignment we set ourself (Kees V. and Benji C.) the challenge to create a dice with which you can choose from 3 different modes e.g. 1 led or multiple leds light up and ‘binary mode’. We … Continue reading →

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Digital Dice

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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We, Floor and Oswaldo made a  digital dice.  This was our first experience with Arduino and programming. The solding, connecting the wires to the arduino and the programming; it was all new to us. First of all it took us … Continue reading →

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DiCe by Daan & Constantijn

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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Our assignment for this week was to built an electronic dice. We wanted to built it as realistic as possible, so we added some special features to make it look like a real dice.

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Making a morse code display

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Aadjan van der Helm
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On the first day of the technical studies course: “Arduino and Electronics” we focused on learning about the arduino and how to program it. The day was spend on the assignment of displaying (with an LED) morse code of characters … Continue reading →

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