The Talking Tree is an installation which allows you to listen to the average growth rate of Ponderosa Pine trees in Colorado. The pine tree we used… Read more “Interactive Object – Talking Tree”

Elevator Pitch: The Talking Tree is an installation which allows you to listen to the average growth rate of all Ponderosa Pine trees in Colorado since this… Read more “Playtesting #2”

Alan and I made a small cardboard prototype of our stump. We painted “tree rings” with conductive paint and hooked it up to a neopixel strip. Each… Read more “Playtesting”

I struggled in the beginning with this lab as I had an “undefined” error for a while. It turned out that the error was because I was… Read more “Lab 5 – Serial Communication”

Alan and I are planning to create an interactive tree stump. We have climate change data that we will incorporate within the stump. The data regards ponderosa pine… Read more “Project Proposal”

PART 1: Servo Motor Control In this section of the lab, I followed the schematic below to create a circuit to control a servo motor. I used… Read more “Lab 4 – Motors”

PART 1: Variable Input & Output: I began this section by building the circuit with a potentiometer and two yellow LEDs.  After creating a schematic, I built… Read more “Lab 3 – Analog I/O + Enclosure”

Part 1: Soldered Breakout Board For part one of the lab, I chose to do the series circuit from lab 1. Below is a photo of all… Read more “Lab 2 – Digital I/O + Soldering”

PART 1: LEDs in Series and Parallel For part 1, I started this lab off by laying out all the necessary materials, including a power source, breadboard,… Read more “Lab 1 – Basic Electronics”