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“Noise” will be a collaborative, physical music-looping device.

We constantly have stresses in our life that overwhelm us from time to time. We dont realize the impact our stressful lifestyle can have on our bodies and overall well being. Stress can induce heart problems, skin conditions, increased heart rate, depression, anxiety and more. People need to take moments to just breathe and learn how to relax for a few moments in times of pressure to maintain healthy living.

Sensation. measures your pulse and allows you to understand your heart palputations visually through a wearable lighting system. If your heart is beating over the healthy limit of beats per minute, embedded motors rotate to create a massage to sooth your stress and focus upon another task to lower your heart rate. Users of Sensation. can also manipulate the patterns of the massage by moving your finger over a position sensor. The device uses an Arduino, softpot Position sensor, 4 cellphone motors, string LEDs, and a pulse sensor.

Keeping musicians in sync with their conductors.

Do concepts like privacy and basic rights only apply to humans? Do we believe we are the only species in the universe with the capacity to think on this level? What if we encounter extraterrestrials, only to find out we have not considered what rights we would grant them? How would they evaluate our relationship to other species on our own planet?

I hope to explore this topic a bit by “unobtrusively” embedding a monitoring system in various places with animal activity and capturing their presence in a shared space.

 The System

A raspberry pi uses a python script to check for movement using a PIR sensor. The sensor triggers the webcam to capture the image of whatever is present and uploads it to a flickr account. Then, a ifttt recipe takes that image and posts it to a dedicaded tumblr account here Universal Rights.

Every day in the United States there exists a conflict between motorists and cyclists on the road.  Although Share the Road campaigns have become more commonplace, many motorists still don’t see cycling as a road-  legal endeavor.  Conflict capture seeks to document and explore the nature of human reaction to being behind cyclists in traffic.  Awareness of this conflict becomes more important every day with many people choosing bicycles as an alternate form of transportation.

The hidden camera takes discrete photographs of motorists in their vehicles as they come in range of the device.  A small on board computer takes the photos and pushes them to the web in real time.  The device is powered by a Raspberry Pi, Bleduino micro controller, and a Sharp long range infrared range finder.