{"id":139,"date":"2008-10-16T03:30:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-10-16T03:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:48:29","slug":"physcomp-midterm-project-week-2-rough-prototype-sexed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/physcomp-midterm-project-week-2-rough-prototype-sexed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"PhysComp midterm project, week 2: Rough prototype, sexed up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our project is now all dressed up, NYC-style:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/indiamos\/2946585638\/\" title=\"The black box: closed by indiamos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3070\/2946585638_8e89a8409d.jpg?resize=416%2C500\" width=\"416\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The black box: closed\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diego and\/or Filippo cut all the squares out of black foamcore and set two of the infrared sensors into the sides. Then, when I rolled in after dinner, I taped the pieces together into a flat pattern and made velcro hinges to pull it together into a box:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/indiamos\/2945720107\/\" title=\"The black box: interior by indiamos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3047\/2945720107_990e15579c.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\"The black box: interior\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then&#8212;my crowning achievement of the day&#8212;I devised a neat little latch for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/indiamos\/2945721967\/\" title=\"The black box: closed latch by indiamos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3155\/2945721967_cd82d94e12.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The black box: closed latch\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Diego and Filippo were figuring out more deluxe ways to use Minim than what I had hashed together the day before, I set about making my breadboard setup a little more robust, so that it could stand being sloshed around a bit in the box. Because the wires that came with the IR sensors are multistranded and very fine, they&#8217;re difficult to poke into the holes in a breadboard, and then they don&#8217;t want to stay in once they&#8217;re there. So it seemed to me that they ought to be soldered to header pins, <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/physcomp\/Labs\/Soldering\">as shown in the soldering lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, much more difficult than it looks&#8212;for me, at least. I present to you what I believe to be my ugliest soldering job yet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/indiamos\/2945722391\/\" title=\"Another bang-up soldering job by indiamos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3193\/2945722391_56da0eb730.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\"Another bang-up soldering job\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hideous. Pathetic. Heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>But soldered they were, and they were, in fact, slightly easier to plug into the breadboard. Once I, you know, straightened the pins out with pliers.<\/p>\n<p><em>How are you supposed to do this?<\/em> Is there some trick to soldering multistrand wire to a header pin? Was I just doing it all wrong, wrong, wrong? Is it a mess because (a) I can&#8217;t see in the shitty light of the lab, and (b) I can&#8217;t hold my hands steady? I hate this. Help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our project is now all dressed up, NYC-style: Diego and\/or Filippo cut all the squares out of black foamcore and set two of the infrared sensors into the sides. Then, when I rolled in after dinner, I taped the pieces together into a flat pattern and made velcro hinges to pull it together into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/physcomp-midterm-project-week-2-rough-prototype-sexed-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PhysComp midterm project, week 2: Rough prototype, sexed up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11,4,8,16,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qY10-2f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}