June 2012
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Digital Futures in Mexico City
Mexican and UK designers, makers, hackers… all together imagining and creating better futures through digital tecnologies.
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QRD1114 IR emitted / Phototransistor
Very Slowly I’m getting back into to electronics … So I’m using a QRD sensor to control colours changing in a RGB LED strip… let’s start.. http://bildr.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/qrd1114.png
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MozFest
For our first project in the Master of Product Design, we were invited to participate in the Mozilla Festival to design physical apps based on the contents of the event.
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You can see here the hole left to pull the wires from the MP3 Trigger to the switch. Also you’ll be able to have a look at the kind of axis or rotation guide for the knob. The radio’s structure is done!
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the knob
Layouts were drawn in Illustrator to cut out the pieces for the knob’s structure. Laser cutter saves loads of time and makes the assembly perfect. I obviously had some minimal errors at the time of glueing as it was made by hand, but nothing that sanding can’t solve.
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play 2
Today I came up with the wiring of all the components. So the MP3 Trigger is now responding to the rotary switch. Also I start sorting things like the button’s mechanism.
daniela rovira 