February 24th, 2010
This week’s theme was the “scale of time increments”; that there are “approximately 365.242199 days in a year. But that number is changing…constantly. Atomic clocks count 9,192,631,770 cycles per second of the cesium-133 atoms to maintain a precise second. Time operates differently depending on the scale of the time increment. Our perception of time is often bound by measurements of time that we cannot perceive. How can we reinterpret these out-of-scale increments into increments we can understand?”
Our assignment was to imagine a relational clock that corresponds to a time scale that is not normally perceivable to humans. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 13th, 2010
This is my version of what’s going on in Telecom industry… Chris asked us to cast a pretty wide net and present any issue to the class. I came across an article about the issue of Number Portability and attempted to explain the issue to the class. Here’s my take.
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February 10th, 2010
Our next task for Sociable Objects Workshop was to create a two-way interactive doorbell using ZigBee and Arduino… to create a doorbell so visitor knows that the buzzer has rung; also
a doorbell with a nap mode and; finally, any doorbell of our choosing.
Richard and I had our doorbells paired and ready to go. It had been a few weeks since I last used Arduino so I was looking forward to getting back into it with this project. A key mistake I made in my initial set-up was rushing the process of soldering pins to my Breakout Board. When you’re doing this part, it’s very important to take your time and have a properly tuned soldering iron with grounded tip. The pins are each spaced 2 mm apart so precision and a steady hand are key as you can easily screw up your Breakout Board. Read the rest of this entry »
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