“When you put on the headphones, you hear a sound that is cycling through a sequence indicating its approach. The sound is somewhere on the left-right axis in the headphones. If the sound is to your left, you have to tilt your head to the left until the sound is centered. If you tilt your head (the paddle) to the right position in time, you hit the ball an continue, the ball’s approach speeding up each time. If you fail to hit the ball a buzzer and light go off to punish you and the game is over.
I am interested in using senses differently and getting people to focus on their senses in novel, interesting and engaging ways.
My first implementation is very rudimentary. My sound generation capabilities are limited to square waves at full volume so there isn’t true panning – just left, right and centered. In addition to real panning, I would like volume control to indicate the ball’s approach rather than the tone sequence I have now. I need to figure out what kind of RC circuit would smooth the PWM output to act like volume control, or use a digital potentiometer.”

Warning: playing audio ping pong in public while using a bluetooth headset will most likely make you appear quite insane – awesome. Audio Ping Pong

Well hello there hackers! I’m the new kid on the block, and I’ll be helping out here with the Blog while the brains of this operation get some work done!

My ‘people name’ is Jenna, but you can call me Blueberry. I have a strong background in software, and like many of you, I’m learning about the hardware side of things now. I’m also a user interface nut, lover of all things making technology more intuitive. Naturally a lover of Mac and inseparable from my trusty jailbroken iPod Touch. Also a lover of all things Bluetooth, though I’m starting to eye those ZigBee modules with curiosity. Oh, and horses. Everything is horse related. Everything.

My first project is a curious combination of a Siamese Fighting Fish and the Ardrumo design. First I’ll be using the Ardrumo software to translate fish wiggles in to Midi Music, and if that works out well, I’d like to investigate fish operated robotics!

~ Blueberry :-)

He has also made a nice little application to view what the optical mouse “sees”.

These group of smart students (Albert Dang, Cicek Neftci, Chiayin Lin and Hsinping Dai) have created a Space Shooter game that uses processing, Arduino, an accelerometer, and motors.

A toy spaceship that has a breadboard enclosed which is connected to an Arduino NG. The Arduino uses serial communication to talk to a computer running Processing. The game is started by pressing a button on the back right fin. An accelerometer inside the spaceship registers tilting, which steers the space ship. Pressing another button fires a laser!