Mashi

Mashi

Oct
19

Week 8: Animation Storyboards

Lily, Spencer, and I have created some storyboards for our animation project. We've compiled our inspiration, art, and references so
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Oct
18

Week 5: Skulls and Motors

Week 5 NotesBackground Readings: Controlling High-Current Loads: Trying to understand how the relay works: through induction there’s a magnetic
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Oct
12

Week 7: Stop Motion Impressions

By Alfonssette Medina, Josh Zhong, and Mashiyat Zaman I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about working with stop motion animation, maybe
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Oct
05

Week 6: Our City in DALL-E

By Lang Qin, Mashiyat Zaman Creating Our City in DALL-EWe invited our classmates to take the following three steps: Choose
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Oct
03

Week 4: How do you open a door?

For this week's Designing Assistive Technology class, I had to build something out of cardboard – I thought it would be
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Sep
26

Week 3: Not everything needs wires

Week 3 NotesBackground Analog Output: PWM: pulse width modulation creates a pseudo-analog voltage – effective voltage created by constantly changing V;
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Sep
21

Week 3: Text-to-Speech as Synthetic Media

Our discussion about deepfakes and other synthetic media in class emphasized the discomfort we felt about the implications of such
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Sep
19

Week 2: Why Won't This Speaker Work?! Because I Need Delay!

Week 2 NotesBackground Microcontrollers: Input: sensor; output: actuator GPIO: general purpose input and output Microcontroller: a simple (firmware only) processor,
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Sep
11

Week 2: Soundwalk and the Molotov Man

Reflections on Our SoundwalkUntitled by Nima, Orpheas, and Mashi0:00/2:471×I’d always been reluctant to join
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Sep
06

Week 1: A Board Game with Switch-operated LEDs

Physical Computing Week 1Readings: Actuator: converts electrical energy into other forms – what forms exactly? Or, which forms are not included?
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