http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters Development blog for air monsters Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:49:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I used to have this naive thinking that reading a sensor input from arduino is just a few lines of codes that I can copy and paste over and over again , probably because I worked with quite a lot of sensors in my last project "portable windows" as well, ... http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=160 just testing vimeo :) Air Monsters from ctrlsave on Vimeo. http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=159 While doing my documentation video in school, I did some user testing with Hunping, Jiny and Alvin. Here are some results. 1. All of them felt that the spring mechanisms worked well. 2.The unit felt a little heavy at first handling but they got used to it almost immediately. 3.It felt nice to ... http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=121 Prototype 02 I intend to improve on it further over the next few days. Things such as the strap would definitely be improved on. I'm just going to do an initial documentation video with this . http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=120 http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=107 The laser cut didn't turn out as well as I thought it would be for the fact that there were burn marks at the edges of the wood pieces. It's quite difficult to find a quality laser cutting service like those in the transmediale workshop. I decided to change the sponge ... http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=93 11 lasercutting done 11 choice of material finished 11 decision what monitor/screen will be used. where is the screen located 11 present sensors working 11 values from the object visualized in processing as a proof of concept http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=92 After much surfing, mailing, calling, I finally found a place suitable for Laser Cutting that deals with wood. Sorry Andreas, Good Strong Gum is unfortunately not strong with wood apparently. Plastic yes. The link for this place is http://www.acmecraft.com.sg/ . They are quite cool. One domain with one photo. http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=91 Using the melamine foam, I assembled a new prototype with the skin included to test the self inflating capabilities and it worked pretty well. The next step is to laser cut my final design and start production on the actual input self-inflating unit. http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=85 http://ctrlsave.com/airmonsters/?p=84