Author Archives: Tony
SmartArmoire
Team: Drew Gleeman, Cory Levinson, Shaagnik Mukherji, Anton Pugh Concept: Rotary Phone: Today, hardly a minute goes by without someone “tweeting” what they’re doing. The rotary phone in the SmartArmoire brings that back to older days before full keyboards, then … Continue reading
Final Project Proposal: Smartphone Armoire
Final Project Concept: Smartphone Armoire Team: Drew Gleeman, Cory Levinson, Shaagnik Mukherji, Anton Pugh Concept: We plan to build several components that collectively have the many capabilities of a smartphone. The various components will each use old, antiquated appliances and devices that … Continue reading
Exercise 6: Wii Violin
Concept: The violin is an instrument which lends itself relatively well to motion sensitive virtual controllers. If the fingering on the neck of the instrument can be simulated with button presses or some other tactile feedback, then the bow motion … Continue reading
Don’t Get Hitched
Concept: I wanted to use OpenCV to do some basic gesture recognition. I thought a simple game could be a fun way to exercise OpenCV’s capabilities. I’m not usually one for celebrity gossip, but I find Kim Kardashian’s marriage fiasco … Continue reading
Mind Chair
Team: Anton Pugh Concept: I wanted to use EEG (electroencephalogram) signals to produce something tangible. I decided to use a familiar object (a chair), and somehow manipulate it with brain data. I thought an interesting application would be the brain’s … Continue reading
Garkov (Garfield + Markov)
Josh Millard made this cool web app that uses a Markov model to generate Garfield comics. Most of them are pretty nonsensical, but if you try for a while you can usually find a few good ones.
Myoelectric Sensors and Actuators
One of my friends pointed these videos out to me. In the first one Daito Manabe uses Myoelectrodes (electrodes for sensing muscle tension) to make music with his body movements. In the second, he turns the setup around and uses electrical … Continue reading
Project 2 Concept: Mindscape
Team: Anton Pugh Title: Mindscape Diagram: Description: The concept is to make a processing sketch that reads in brain data from the Emotiv EPOC Brain-Computer Interface. Once the data is read in, it will be plotted in a way similar … Continue reading
Project 1: Maize Mob
Title: Maize Mob Concept: We used Processing and PHP to build a simple website which allows users to “check-in” to various places around campus. Each user is assigned a team based on their birthday and the two teams compete to … Continue reading
Project 1 Concept (Revised): Maize Mob
Team: Shaagnik Mukherji Anton Pugh Title: Maize Mob Diagram: Description: We plan to use Foursquare/Twitter/Facebook Check-In data in a new mobile app that focuses on the U of M campus and U of M students. The basic idea is people … Continue reading