Thursday, October 27, 2016

What I did 10/24 - 10/26

10/24
We talked about final presentations today. People seemed to like my idea of the Hermes Hat (which has now become a top hat. Now I just need to find links to build this device.

10/26
Me and my group led a discussion of the reading (see previous posts). I think that turned out well. I was rather proud of my discussion questions. Hope the other groups do just as good a job as us.

Also did some research for the Hermes Hat:

But before I order anything I will go to the hobby store just up the road on 9 mile and see if they have a motor.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Human Born Cyborg Discussion Points 0-2 part 2

As written by Tuong

    • Heavy metal

      • what was the strict antithesis of Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing.
      • two types of technology: transparent technologies, opaque technologies what are they?
        • transparent technologies: technology that is so well fitted to, and intergrated with, our own lives, biological capacities, and projects as to become almost invisible to use.
        • opaque technologies: keeps tripping the user up, requires skills and capacities that do not come naturally to the biological organism, and thus remains the focus of attention even during routine problem-solving activity
      • training for technology to become transparent?
    • Transparent Tools
      • who is Donald Norman?
        • guru of of the age of information technology
      • what is the problem with technology-centered products
    • Smart Worlds
      • information appliances are characterized by three central features:
        • An information appliance is geared to support a specific activity, and to do so via the storage, reception, processing, and transmission of information. 
        • Information appliances form an intercommunicating web. They can “talk” to each other. 
        • Information appliances are transparent technologies, designed to be easy to use, and to fade into the background. They are poised to be taken for granted
      • Weiser vision of home and work compare to Norman.
        • Weiser is more fill with small, intercommunicating, unobtrusive intelligent devices was a vision of a world of such appliances
        • Norman is more restricted, less futuristic.
      • The web include a varied and mutually empowering matrix of what?
        • human-centered technologies
      • why do you need an even-richer web of support
      • what is a wearable computer. 
        • an information-processing tool that is a deep but non invasive sense, integral to the user
        • human-centered technology
      • what is Bradley Rhodes's wearable remembrance agent?
        • a continuously running proactive memory aid
      • what is an example of tangible computing?
        • Marble answering machine by Durrell Bishop, at London Royal Collage of Art
      • MIT Media Lab has a group called The Tangible Media Group and what vision do they wish to pursue
        • embodied digitally
      • augmented reality who used this term first?
        • a group of Boeing engineers and scientists in the early 1990s
      • how was augmented reality used?
        • University of Central Florida used LEDs (liquid Electronic Displays) to see how the bones move while the women were walking.
      • Mike Scaife
        • worked as part of a multi-univeristy interdisciplinary research colaboartion helped design a mixed reality adventure game called hunting the Snark.
    • Moving On
      • how will the difference between the two vision show?
        • if the information appliances will be designed to remain firmly out of sight and out of mind.
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Human Born Cyborg Discussion Points 0-2 part 1

(as Written by John)
  • General Question: What does it mean to be a Cyborg?



    • Does the depth of the technology in regards to our human anatomy affect if the individual is considered a "Cyborg"
      • ex: Lolo -- the author's microchipped cat -- vs the topless dancer with barcoded breasts in Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan comic
    • discuss Introduction's example of wireless tech helping become cyborgs
    • or pilots and their computer autopilots



  • What does cyborg stand for? what is the term's origins?
    • what was the first cyborg?
  • Who is Kevin Warwick and why should Thomas and his app based door opener be jealous?
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Final project Idea Presentation

My idea is a hat with wings inspired by the greek and roman god Mercury / Hermes's hat/helmet. It would be a normal hat but would have wings on top which would have some mechanism to make them flutter.

like this found illustration but to the side rather than to the back

I was thinking the wings would be based on a  ornithopter/chirothopter similar to this Instructable page but on a hat. I had a hard time finding exactly the same mechanism that I am envisioning. Most were like the ornithopter or were wings like these but they don't look as fun as something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqoY5JMMSME. There was also this interesting one: http://hackaday.com/2014/10/12/mechanical-bird-actually-flies-by-flapping-its-wings/


I am first to admit this is a rough idea but I think it would be fun.

 The circuit could be similar to this and would attach to the arduino. 



Oter links:





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Human Born Cyborg Notes 0-2

Introduction


  • Wireless discussion of human cyborgs (regarding cellphones)

Ch 1 Cyborg Unplugged

Rats in Space:

  • origin of the cyborg (rather reengineering the space ships for comfort, why not reengineer the humans?)
    • Manfred Clynes: chief research scientist at Rockland State Hospital and an expert on the design and development of physiological measuring equipment
    • remarked that it sounded “like a town in Denmark."
    • For the exogenously extended organizational complex . . . we propose the term “cyborg.” The Cyborg deliberately incorporates exogenous components extending the self-regulating control function of the organism in order to adapt it to new environments
    • “cyborg” stood for Cybernetic Organism or Cybernetically Controlled Organism; 
    • it was a term of art meant to capture both a notion of humanmachine merging and the rather specific nature of the merging envisaged
  • First cyborg
    • 1955) classic cyborg: rat with implanted Rose osmotic pump. The pump automatically injects chemicals into the rat to form a biotechnological control loop, which can be adapted to unusual conditions (for example, survival in space

Implants and Mergers

  • cocullar implants
  • Kevin Warwick
    • the Department of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, in England
    • 1st: 1998 
      • a fairly simple silicon chip, encased in a glass tube
      • opening doors as he approached, turning lights on and off, and so on
    • 2nd: March 14, 2002: 
      • 100 tips on array connect to nerve fibers in wrist and linked to wires in arm and then linked via radio contact to a computer
      • disconnected nerve transmission to the brain.
    • plans for wife:
      • have a matching but surface-level device connected to his wife, Irena
      • signals accompanying actions, pains, and pleasures could then be copied between the two implants, allowing Irena’s nervous system to be stimulated by Kevin’s and vice versa
  • other ex:
    • able to control the movements of a live cockroach by hooking its motor neurons to a microprocessor
    • electronically mediated control of some muscular function
    • paralyzed stroke patient, fitted with a neurally implanted transmitter, has been able to will a cursor to move across a computer screen
    • rats with similar implants have learned to depress a reward-generating lever by just thinking about it
    • female orgasm-generating electronic implant
  • pilots and their computer autopilots

stopped at pg 31


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Saturday, October 22, 2016

What I did 10/17 - 10/19

10/17
In class we talked about if then statements, for statements and a few other things to finish off the Arduino notebook. The most fascinating piece of coding information for me was the random number generator which would generate a number which would be the brightness of the light connected to the circuit (if it is a light). the equivalent of that would be randomized.

Suggested Github for pre-made code. when using that site we have to go into the code and take out "master apend". put the downloaded file into the libraries folder.



 10/19
Thomas wasn't there so there wasn't officially class but I did come in anyway (I didn't check my email as I had spent the morning grocery shopping). Since I was there already I used the school computers to research links for my Final Project.

 I have not flushed out everything entirely but I am considering making a device similar to the god Mercury/Hermes's hat/helmet. It would be a normal hat but would have wings on top which would have some mechanism to make them flutter. I figure my input would be light but that might change. I just like the idea of a hat with wings. It would go good with the magic mirror.

 Here is the links I have found thus far:

 http://www.instructables.com/id/make-an-ornithopterchirothopter/?ALLSTEPS


I will organize all this later in my proposal blog.
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Friday, October 14, 2016

What I did 10/10 - 10/12

10/10
We talked about the Instructables links we posted, then we talked about the final project.
I'm not exactly sure what I'll do yet but I have an inkling. I will research to see if I can come up with some ideas.


10/12
We played with our arduinos and made a circuit connected with our bread boards, but this time we played with LEDs and a light sensor.




Thomas gave us the site fritzing which has software that simulates a breadboard/Arduino and other elements like resisters. Might be helpful for the final project.

Also did another circuit.


We looked at the Arduino notebook and talked about pages 11-14 specifically about variable declaration, bytes, integers, long, float, arrays, arithmetic, comparison operators, logical operators, constants (PI, HALFPI, TRUE, FALSE)
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