Forum - Week 7 - Physical Computing 2

For "physical" computing there sure was a lot of sitting down.

This week we continued our physical computing capers, this time controlling one of our circuit-bend toys using Max. Our circuit bend toy is still the phone, as all subsequent toys we have purchased have not worked. We decided to control the battery terminal connection in the circuit using Max, and of course we ended up plugging a metro into the kslider so that the circuit would turn on and off rapidly (every 50 ms in the video).



Exercise 4 proved to be troublesome, as even though we followed the instructions directly, and under the watchful eye of Seb, it did now work. Every time something doesn't work it doubles the amount of time required, so from now on Jake and I will 1. Follow the instructions. 2. Repeat instructions if necessary. 3. Blog that result. So here is our first 'doesn't work' video. The circuit took a good 15 minutes to set up, so we were a little disappointed when it had no effect on the sound.



Christian Haines. “Forum – Week 7 – Physical Computing (2).” Workshop presented at the Audio Lab, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 6th of September 2007.[1]

Sebastian Tomczak. “Forum – Week 7 – Physical Computing (2).” Workshop presented at the Audio Lab, Level 4, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 6th of September 2007.[1]

1. David Dowling "Forum - Week 7 - Physical Computing 2" Blog entry reference. Online http://www.notesdontmatter.blogspot.com/