My road to real life

This is what is getting created when you sit and have nothing better to do.

http://gladabarngerbraorgan.com/

I handle free time badly…

Yesterday was the final examination show at K3 Malmo University. I had my project Lumilos for show and it went well. Many people coming by and talking about it and it felt good. The Lumilos project ended pretty nice if I can say it self. The wall as seen below is nicely covered in light and the Poweruino circuit performed flawlessly during the whole show. So now is the circuit tested for running for 3 days straight and not a single problem. It responds directly on commands sent to it and is running smoothly. Using i2c was perfect for this project and really easy to work with. Will be interesting to start using Poweruino in some other projects. I have already some plans and will blogg about them as they come up.

Another nice thing seems to be on the move right now. I might go to London and ARUP during the summer as an internship. Really excited about going and sees it as a great opportunity. Hope everything falls in place now soon…

So have received my circuit now and have built it togheter and tested it and it works flawlessly. was a nice relief when I turned on the power for the first time and it came alive. Here is a picture of how the circuit looks like assembled. Will now this week incorporate it into my project which is in display on Monday at Malmö Högskola between 16-19 if anyone is interested.

Here is a better rendition of the circuit. Some parts where missing in the library so it will no tlook exaclty like this but pretty close.

It was done using first eagle to build the circuit, then 3deagle to export a POV file which is then renderd in POV-ray to get the final picture.

Today I have finished the design of my circuit for controlling powerleds. It ended with a design which can be seen below and I namned it Poweruino. It is a name based on arduino which is the ground I have built upon and power since this circuit enables me to drive powerleds which uses 1 A at 3 voltage. This design will also enable me to drive motors or anything else that is a little bit more powerhungry without any problem so it is a very versatile circuit. If there is any interest in buying it please contact me.

another one that is relevant to my thesis

The power-aware cord: energy awareness through ambient information display
Full text	Pdf (646 KB)
Source	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive CHI ‘05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents Portland, OR, USA SESSION: Late breaking results: short papers table of contents Pages: 1423 - 1426 Year of Publication: 2005 ISBN:1-59593-002-7
Authors	Anton Gustafsson Interactive Institute, Eskilstuna, Sweden Magnus Gyllenswärd Interactive Institute, Eskilstuna, Sweden
Sponsors	ACM: Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Publisher	ACM New York, NY, USA

The last couple of days I have really tried to get into the written part of my project. It is not any part I find funny at all but it is a must. Have created togheter with a friend a punishment and reward system so that I will be more eager to write the stuff. A bit like Pavlovs experiments with dogs. well if that is what it takes Im willing to try it.

Another more positive thing is that my shipment has arrived from hongkong, dealextreme. Takes for ever to get it but hey it is cheap as hell and so far nothing has been stopped in the custom.

This summer I will be part of arranging a couple of workshops in Arduino and Processing. Im member of a group called 1scale1 and it is us that will be holding this venue in Malmo Sweden. If it sounds interesting take a look at http://www.1scale1.com/7workshops7

So have I been shopping for more stuff. The good thing about this round is that it hasnt costed me a dime. I have started to look into where I can order samples of the components that I need and there is plenty. Found 2 of the little bit more expensive components and I have sampled those. Pretty remarkable that you are able to order stuff from Thailand, Hongkong and Malayisa and get it shipped here for free. Well hopefully this orders cut my cost with a couple of kronors which is good since I havnt received any answer for my question about sponsorship. Will see how I solve the money issue but in a perfect world I would get a couple of thousands to work with. Well see how it goes.

Have started to look into how I2C is done with arduino and found this post. http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2007/01/11/arduino-and-twi/

Looks like a good roundup that I will be able to use.