Our Pong game now has feedback on the network controllers. The little colored lights respond to the progress of the game locally, so that theoretically, the screen could be in Paris, with one player in Detroit and the other in Jakarta. Cool. The updated code for the controllers and the game isn’t thoroughly commented yet, […]

This active photo collage hangs on the wall near a computer workspace. It displays pictures that are dependent upon the current contents of the user’s email inbox, conveying general information about email in a calm manner, that does not interrupt other tasks. Users will receive information regarding message senders, message aging, whether messages have been

Gabe Colombo shows off his tie-making record score on Social Genius. Like previous record holders, Gabe risked repetitive stress injuries in a heroic quest to learn the names of his classmates.

Leif and I are now able to play Pong over the Internet. It’s not perhaps the best example of the venerable video game, but the paddles do move nicely up and down as we twist the potentiometers that are attached to our XPort boards. Rather than use the text-based network commands in Processing, we decided

This is the XPort hooked up to a potentiometer so that it can accept input for the Pong game paddle. Each controller will be contacted by a Processing program, after which the controller will stream ADC values from the PIC, via the XPort, across the Internet and into Processing. Here is the first draft of

This program in Processing simply opens a connection to an XPort, on its default port. We just tried it and it works. The next step will be to add a function that reads a byte of data, sent from the PIC. // rob@faludi.com // This program receives information from an XPort PIC board it may

After much hand wringing, I seem to have solved an out of memory error in Processing, specifically “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError”. Here’s the fix: 1. Quit Processing. If Processing is running when you make this change, it won’t work. 2. On the Mac, go to Users, then your home directory then Library, then Processing, then preferences.txt. That’s: ~/Library/Processing/preferences.txt

We selected two generalized note-storage programs to review for this assignment in analyzing interaction models, StickyBrain and TopXNotes. StickyBrain (notes, diagram) was: Generally exploratory Space oriented (objects? tools? tasks?) Weak modality Generalized Novice users Lean forward (with some lean back) Context unaware TopXNotes (notes, diagram, alternate view) was: Somewhat directed Object oriented (less rich object)

Yesterday I created a set of helping hands for soldering from the fine guide on Instructables. The first version (1.0) came apart at the base crimp, so I’ve soldered that connection (v1.01). In general I think the issue is needing a smaller gage of ring lugs. The base is quite stable so the test will

Carlos Borges and I shadowed a father-daughter trip to the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and made a report of our findings. We also put together a draft research plan.