Intro to Physical Computing Final

December 6, 2007

For our final we went through a slew of designs, starting with the blocks idea from HeeJin, Matt and Jose’s midterm & moving in a direction utilizing RFID, then that idea became a large circular center piece with a built-in display for visuals surrounded by 8 pods that would detect pieces via RFID & control visual & auditory feedback, then this moved to a design keeping the basic design but instead using 8 iPod-like scrollwheels to control visuals & Midi triggers, and finally to the current design with 6 touch pads.

Link to the team development blog

The MiXem ITP Projects Page

Finalized Control Flow

Pictures of Etching the Scrollwheel Board (missing many steps)

Pictures of Etching the MiXem Sensor Board 

Code for testing the LED controllers

Posted in ITP Fall 2007, Intro to Physical Computing