Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Project 2 Teams

Teams :

Akshay and Tarek : ... @ ...
Raghu and Sumod : Flotus @Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
Tony and Vidya : Phoenix@La Aguila, Italy.

Process pics from Phoenix@La Aguila, Italy.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Friday, September 4, 2009

Project 1 - Development

Here are some sketches (via Raghu) of our projecte development.  The project is due Sept 9 and we will have a youtube video plus our documents for review / critique.

Proposal Project 1

Here are some images of our first proposal (as a group) for the responsive architecture wall in a disco.  The idea is that a sensor (in our case camera/face detection) will sense someone is there and move out a seat / table for the people dependent on the number of people.  ie - 1 person a seat, 2 people a seating area, 3 people a bench, 4 people on a table for drinks.  Comments welcome.

Inter Arduino communication

This is a good place to learn about inter-arduino communications.

http://absences.sofianaudry.com/en/node/10

I2C BUS : Stands for Inter Integrated Circuit. It basically is a protocol for communication between different embedded devices and sensors.. Like accelerometers, temp sensors, embedded controllers etc...

In case of arduinos, just hook up all the Analog 4th pins together and 5th pins together. Use a pull-up resistor of 1-2Kohm between +5V and these pins. Also if you are using different power sources, do remember to share them. That is to connect all the +5 together and GND's together. Careful not to short them.

In case of Arduino's we make use of the wire library, to make the I2C communications easy. Thats all... :)

Welcome to ARCH 879: Fall 09

Hey all,

We welcome y'all to the course blog :)