Meditation was something that I had always heard about since I was a child. I would always picture it as something only the enlightened Sadhus do on a Himalayan mountain peak. I had never come across anyone practicing it until during my undergrad when my friends took a meditation open…

For week 7 of our physical computing class at SVA we had to make something using serial communication between the Arduino and processing. We came up with a band which consists of a piano player, a drummer and and a trumpet player. …

Tutorial: Arrays https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BuiltInExamples/Arrays Question: When we compare the for statement in the void loop for the increasing and decreasing order of pins that light up LEDs, the decreasing order code says thisPin = pinCount - 1 . Why is this needed when we already have thisPin-- ? for (int thisPin…

Starting our interaction design journey at SVA with the physical computing course made me think why is physicality relevant to interactions? With a world that is going towards the digital day by day it made me wonder would physical interactions still be relevant in the times to come. While I…

During week 3 of our Physical computing class at MFA IxD, SVA we learnt about the basics of Arduino programming. As a part of the next assignment we had to make a puzzle that would only open when a certain combination of things were done. …

As a continuation of our story telling switches assignment in our physical computing class at MFA IxD, SVA, we were asked to modify our simple story telling switch to an analog input method. Our Initial idea was to use a potentiometer with a knob for the arm of the man…

Since my childhood, I’ve always loved listening to stories. I would always look forward to bedtime when my grandparents would tell me stories from the great Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. As I grew older I began to notice the subtle lessons hidden in these stories. …