I'M JOHN MARS (Page 2)

SkyNet Sans

SkyNet Sans (or Parro-Tweet) is a platform based upon the Parrot ARDrone Quadcopter. We control the copter via a gamepad and use it to snap pictures which are automatically uploaded to Twitter. The prompt for the project was to design a spy device for Making Things Interactive at Carnegie Mellon

Image Processing

Colorizing the Prokudin-Gorskii photo collection

The Prokudin-Gorskii photo collection is a series of photographs from an era before color photography had been invented. Prokudin-Gorskii, in all his insight however knew there might be a time when color photos were the norm, so he set off to photograph his Russian homeland in full color. Armed with

Hybrid Instrument Building

Tracking Phones with a Kinect

A little sneak peek for Monday's upcoming Hybrid Instrument Building class. I'm tracking the position of a phone and its screen color, and sonifying it.

Hybrid Instrument Building

BETRAYAL BOT!

BETRAYAL BOT! takes trust as its input, and returns betrayal as a result. The robot will ask for your phone under the pretense of charging it — all will appear as normal until you try to take your phone back. That's when BETRAYAL BOT! springs into action: he'll immediately drive away

Making Things Interactive

The Floor Has A Voice

4. Send that tune into the room as unobtrusively as possible, to make it seem like the room itself is singing.There isn’t much to show here, and that's kind of the whole point. I've embedded my system into the ventilation vents in the floor below. A surface transducer

Making Things Interactive

Harmonizing with the Background

3. Create a never-ending tune from based upon the base frequency.Via OSC I can send the FFT-derived base-frequency to a Raspberry Pi running Pd-extended. With PD, tone generation is as simple as connecting a few nodes, and song generation is just a little bit more complicated than that. A

Making Things Interactive

Transforming microphones

1. Pick up the noise in a room with a microphone (the kind of which is undetermined)An electret mic is my microphone of choice in this case. The one I'm using from Adafruit is pretty good, and very easy to use. Sound has always been this mystical, mysterious thing,

Making Things Interactive

Listening to the background

I often find myself humming some made-up tune to the gentle whir of a room's machinery in the background of my consciousness. What would happen if that whir became more pronounced, and the room started singing its own tune? To accomplish this, I must do a few things: Pick up

Writings

A digital something

Once a digital something is created, it's almost impossible to destroy. It can't be moved or deleted, only copied or overwritten. From the moment you click that "Post" button, there's no going back. Your data spreads across the globe and through the sky, distributing and cloning itself into the magnetic

Writings

Leverage

A running theme in criticism of my work up to this point has been regarding the lack of a human factor to mitigate the coldness of electronics. Computers are great at making binary true/false decisions, regardless of how major or minor those decisions are. But they fall short with

Writings

I am a spaceship

I don't take meandering paths with my work, at least not the kind you'd usually find in architecture: the path of the Flâneur. I still do wander, of course, but my wanderings are more directed. I am a spaceship. I am a spaceship exploring the heavens above, being pushed, pulled,