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The uD (pronounced “moody”) was created by Chris Arges, Alex Tucker, and I for a Senior Design Project.  This project is active, but on the backburner.  A seperate blog for brainstorming can be found here: http://algorithmicmusings.pbwiki.com

  This project is a culmination of work that I’ve been doing for an upcoming exhibit at BIACS 3 entitled ‘Waves’. The initial prototype of the project was created using a Magnevation SpeakJet for waveform generation.  While the SpeakJet is an interesting product, I wasn’t quite able to squeeze the sounds that I wanted out of it.  The [...]

I’m a Graduate Research Assistant at the Haptic Research Interface Laboratory (HIRL) at Purdue University. Being a Haptics Lab, we primarily study the sense of touch; investigating the modes of tactile sensation and exploring ways to deliver information to humans by means of it.

 While designing an ambient display project, I came across the Freescale MC(Z)33970 Dual Gauge driver IC.  The part seemed interesting, so I ordered a sample and whipped up a small C library to use in conjunction with a perf-boarded USB Bit Whacker I had on my workbench.  (An Arduino library is also available below)

Every so often you come across a reinvention of an old idea that blows you away, not only in its elegance but its sheer utility.  For me, this occurred a few weeks ago, when I came across the USB Bit Whacker.  The name was familiar, I’d surely seen it while browsing the Sparkfun product catalog, [...]