Nov 17, 2022

Lab10: Synthesis—Invent a musical instrument

Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Members: YY Yao, Weiying Li, Wenxuan Cai, Zoe Bai Description: In this lab, we will be applying what we know about input devices, output devices, mechanics, and serial communication to invent a new musical instrument. For homework, we are going to make an interactive game with musical instrument, named Hopscotch. In the input part, we measure steps by rock-paper-scissors game results in using Force Sensitive Resistors and Capacitive Sensing. Only the winner has the chance to move forward one step.

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Lab10: Synthesis—Invent a musical instrument

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Lab10: Synthesis—Invent a musical instrument

Chris Myers.

Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022

Members: YY Yao, Weiying Li, Wenxuan Cai, Zoe Bai

Description:

In this lab, we will be applying what we know about input devices, output devices, mechanics, and serial communication to invent a new musical instrument.

For homework, we are going to make an interactive game with musical instrument, named Hopscotch.

let’s make Hopscotch interactive with music!

In the input part, we measure steps by rock-paper-scissors game results in using Force Sensitive Resistors and Capacitive Sensing. Only the winner has the chance to move forward one step.

Nov 6, 2022

Final Project Proposal

Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Official Project Name: LUMOS Members: YY Yao, Terrie Joo, Weiying Li, Chaitra Raghupathi, Wenxuan Cai Project Overview Background: Young students often lack confidence to speak in class due to learning difficulties, mood, feelings of anxiety, feeling behind, not understanding, fear of being judged, shyness, lack of concentration, and etc. Furthermore, there are asymmetrical power relations between students and teachers. More…

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Nov 3, 2022

Lab9: Output—Simple mechanics

YY Yao, Weiying, Li. Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Description: For this week’s lab, we listened Adam’s lecture and got the knowledge of different mechanics. The “Cuckoo Clock” mechanics has two sides: a door that opens and closes a bird that leaps forward and backward. Cuckoo Clock typically has an automaton of the bird that appears through a small trap door while the clock is striking.

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Lab9: Output—Simple mechanics

YY Yao, Weiying, Li.

Chris Myers.

Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022

Description:

For this week’s lab, we listened Adam’s lecture and got the knowledge of different mechanics. The “Cuckoo Clock” mechanics has two sides:

a door that opens and closes
a bird that leaps forward and backward.

Cuckoo Clock typically has an automaton of the bird that appears through a small trap door while the clock is striking.

In the homework, Me and my friend Weiying partnered together and made a crane clock. We made a pully door system and there’s a paper crane leaping forward and backward. As we pull the string, the paper crane would be out of the door (trap).

Components:

foamboard*3
strings*n
rubberband*2
screw*3

Images:

Oct 27, 2022

Lab8: Output — Servo motors

YY Yao. Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Description: For this week’s lab, we explored the servo motor. It is different from the DC motor we used last week. We could combine different angle fans (or other things) with it, but a maximum of 180 degrees. …

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Oct 26, 2022

Group6: Speculative Design

Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Members: YY Yao, Terrie Joo, Weiying Li, Chaitra Raghupathi, Wenxuan Cai Primer & Speculative Design Prompt Cards Answers for The Service Dog card If your product was entirely dedicated to empowering the lives of an underserved population, what kind of impact could you make? The learning environment of the class would be more encouraged. The interaction between teachers and students can be more organized.

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Oct 15, 2022

Lab7: Output — DC motors

YY Yao. Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Description: In this week’s class, I tried the DC motor with the potentiometer. The circuit we will build in this lesson will be much more complex than the previous ones. A DC motor converts DC electricity into rotational motion. I encountered some…

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Oct 7, 2022

Lab6: Capacitive Sensing with Piezo

YY Yao. Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Description: In this week’s class, I explored the Capacitive Sensor and its library. It’s a very versatile kind of touch and proximity sensor. It can detect when a person is touching an object. …

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Oct 5, 2022

Group 6: Critical and Reflective Design

Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Members: YY Yao, Terrie Joo, Weiying Li, Chaitra Raghupathi, Wenxuan Cai Our Interaction and Underlying Assumptions: The teacher talks too fast, and as a result, students have a hard time understanding

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Oct 4, 2022

TUI: Midterm Project Progress Sketches

Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Members: YY Yao, Terrie Joo, Weiying Li, Chaitra Raghupathi, Wenxuan Cai USER CASES: Possible inputs: A note to ourselves: Since this is an ambient support system, we don’t want to add TOO MUCH information to overwhelm teachers who are already dealing with intensive information. Student Facial expressions: confused, happy, distracted, etc — can be captured by…

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Sep 30, 2022

Lab 5: Output—Piezo Speakers

YY Yao. Chris Myers. Tangible User Interfaces, Fall 2022 Description: In the class lab, we tried the Piezo speaker and made it play music based on the note edition on the monitor(I thought it was like the sound of aliens coming tho). …

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