Well, I’m not sure I was able to solve all the issues involved, but it did clarify my thinking as far as was the issues are. I have three basic mechanisms here.
A first class lever to launch the pie. I use weight as a counterforce. Rubber bands and springs were giving me more torque at [...]
I’ve been mulling over my Mechanisms midterm project (an automated-pie-throwing-machine — I’ll post more info about it later) and it’s got me thinking a lot about useless technology, something that’s interested me for a while. Most technology we actually use is bloated with unused features, and ultimately makes life more complicated, but I love the [...]
As I go along, I’ve been putting quality art supply stores into a Google Map so I can reference it later. Maybe someone else will find it useful as well. There’s only 4 stores in there now, but it’s sure to grow.
Wow. Our Materials class had a short trip to the Advanced Media Studio, and it was a real eye-opener. (35 W. 4th St.) Although I knew it was there, I hadn’t realized how accessible (and relatively cheap) it was. Holy schlizznat! 3d full color printing for a couple hundred bucks or less. I reiterate, [...]
The EM-406A is a 20-channel GPS receiver with built in patch antenna available at Sparkfun.com for $60.
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Here’s my attempt at a free body diagram of a flat screen monitor supported by a stand. N=Normal force. G=gravity. S=support given by the stand. I figure that θ1=θ2 although I don’t remember the geometric theorem that would lead me to believe that.
And I know that gravity= 9.8 m/s2. And say we estimate that the [...]
For my final project, I attempted to take part of the idea from our midterm project (whatever you’d call it — a “sound thing” maybe) and flesh it out more, make it more robust. I suppose at that level, the project was a success, but it did not turn out as I had planned.
One problem [...]
Stella, Hye, and I wandered around the city earlier this semester observing human interactions with traffic lights. We learned that in general, humans don’t pay attention to traffic lights. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In most cases, they’re able to get by just on their own observation. Sometimes, they take certain things [...]
Unfortunately, this response is written well after having read the assigned passages, so hopefully my ideas won’t be too far off the mark.
There are enough ideas in this book, that in this short response, I think I will only address two: Of course, one must examine McLuhan’s central thesis that “The Media is the Message”; [...]
I’ve always believed the argument that comics are as valid an art form as any other, but truthfully, I don’t think I ever really felt it was true. Comics never really hooked me, so I just accepted the argument and didn’t give it much thought. But then again, I’m pretty mucha relativist when it comes [...]