Flash the LED without Arduino. Pure electrons flow between resistors, capacitors, diodes, and 555 transistor. Feeling gradually getting more well along with electronic schematic. Love the class and teacher Eric!
Proof below.
Category Archives: Spring 2014
mushroom. intervention. systemic.
First thought after reading “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species”, “Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom”, and the interview with Oliver during weekend is that, I kind of found the purpose of a project, what can I do about it and what’s the possible future of a project. As an artist, I can start from
"love"
, start from developing deeper and knowing thoroughly about what I love, and then gradually, with the creative interventions, I can bridge worlds between public and the field where my passion lies. Quoted from Anna “… my stories tell how advocacy for mushrooms can lead to projects for democratic science and publicly inclusive wellbeing.“, I’m inspired to search what I’m crazy about and immerse myself in it. Before that, I don’t really understand the goal of this class now I’ve found it. It’s not about just trying to use fungi in your projects and trying to involve Led, motor, Arduino, but trying to intervene this mysterious field with your point of view. Then as a messenger, you expose the rarely-knew info and make it connect to the public.
Thus, simplifying and more comprehensive project update:
Idea
- One line description: See the world through fungus.
- I want to build up connections between fungus and people, and further take fungus as a bridge to connect people with the world beyond fungus. Thus being aware of what fungus is, what fungus does, how does it affect the planet.
- The idea is playing with the notions from “Mycelium Running” by Paul Stamets,
- “I see the mycelium as the Earth’s natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.”
- One particular thing I’d love to highlight is fungus’s decomposing ability. It is the key of the nutrient cycling system, and also degrade or remove toxins from the environment.
- So yes, it’s a project with eco-friendly aspect and hope people will be more aware of the environmental issue.
Content
- Upon a box of soil, are 5~8 mycelium lights hanging and changing between bright and dim gradually.
- In the background screen, playing the collage of the mycelium activities(growing, moving, etc) video footages, representing fungus’s daily life.
- Once someone comes near(detected by ultrasonic sensor), the mycelium lights speed up changing, and forming a pattern of spreading. Also, the screen’s content turns to show the interactions between fungus and humankind, including foraging, pollution, infection, bio-chemical etc.
- If time permits, the soil will be pushed by the solenoids beneath, amplifying fungus’s awareness of us.
Materials
- Mycelium Lights * 5~8
- wrap mycelium(post-blender) around balloons, and poke the balloons once mycelium eats all the materials
- Wood sticks * 4
- Wires hiding in flax ropes
- Wood base
- soil in wood box
- ultrasonic sensor attached
- solenoid beneath(if time permits)
Also about the case study, one thing interests me that most of the projects from reading and from Oliver, all have certain degree of public influence, and create new behavior. I wonder how many artist originally had this kind of visions and how many artist eventually made it and change the real world? Or are they actually all make it through but just in different level? And how can we keep our vision and passion vivid and lively?
{Roofwing}_storyboards and 3D view
Spatial Media project with John. A multiple players game to feel the wing, feel the swing, and feel the height.
Storyboards*3
3D perspective view
software: Maya
Next, should be a miniature or simple version set in the lounge of ITP.
physical aspects {Tranquil_v2}
Based on the physical characteristics assigned by Neva:
- Scale: Immersive versus Distant
- distant
- Density: Heavy versus Light
- light, in order, orientation like lotus
- Rigidity / Elasticity: Hard versus Soft
- freely, floating, soft
- Energy-Level: Exciting versus Calming
- calming
- Number: One versus Crowd
- only one
- or many but with a lot of space, freely floating like stars
I adjust my {Tranquil_v1} from this:
to this(click to switch the background mode(black, grey dots, white), it’d run faster if you enter the post to see):
webbbb {self_documentary}
Ok pal, THIS is the absolutely non-sense web page about my super basic experiment about WEB.
So -_-, so non-sense. But since the class is called “Meshups”, I guess it makes sense, kind of.
space design: Rooftop of the World
Partner with John.
Older version with tent on top
answers to hw and hopely to project
Answer#1
var print = "#";
for(var i=0; i<7; i++){
console.log(print);
print += "#";
}
Answer#2
for(var i=0; i<100; i++){
if((i+1)%3==0 || (i+1)%5==0){
console.log("FizzBuzz");
} else {
console.log(i+1);
}
}
Answer#3
var size = 8;
var print1 = "#";
var print2 = " ";
var printFinal1 = "";
var printFinal2 = "";
for(var i=1; i<size+1; i++){
if (i%2==1){
printFinal1+=print1;
printFinal2+=print2;
}
else{
printFinal1+=print2;
printFinal2+=print1;
}
}
for(var i=0; i<printFinal.length; i++){
if(i%2==0){
console.log(printFinal1);
} else {
console.log(printFinal2);
}
}
Yeah hay.
As for the project that
Create a single web page experience that, upon user input, responds with data from at least 2 web apis. (1) a user needs to “trigger” an event, (2) data needs to be requested via AJAX from two APIs, (3) and the page should update appropriately.
I’m not sure yet… stiill tuning!
{FungU} Concept and prototype with 3D model
Idea
Mycelium covers all over the Earth and is aware of what’s going on up there. Its decomposing ability is the key of the nutrient cycling system, and can also degrade or remove toxins from the environment. Those newly learned information inspired me to be a missioner of fungus, broadcasting what fungus has done for the planet, so this is a project based on the perspective of fungus. Magnifying what fungus does by present it as a creature with thoughts.
Content
When no one’s near, the projector projects(or screen behind plays) the collage of the mycelium activities(growing, moving, decomposing, degrading pollution etc.) video footages, representing what fungus is doing right now. When someone comes near(detected by ultrasonic sensor), the image changes into camera view, and viewer will be capped with oyster mushroom cap(using OpenCV), a light-hearted way to show how close we are to fungus, to intrigue to be aware of what fungus is doing, and hopefully to make us be the positive force for the Earth, like fungus, instead of being a negative influence.
Materials
-
Mushroom: Oyster Mushroom
- commonly seen, edible, easily growing, can break down the pesticides, petroleum based contaminants and hydrocarbons based pollutants)
- Cap: Cork shaped as net, wrapping logs to grow out mushroom
- Body: Mycelium
- Base: soil in wood box
(3D model made in Maya)
interview and sensors test {FungU}
Interview with Stephen from Ecovative and Customer Service Lady from Fungi Perfecti:
- Free form mycelium fabrication could be doable, just remember to degerm.
- Can’t be pressed in small mold because it will be hard to take out of the mold.
- Can try to put growing log in the mold I make to grow, but cut it in half equals to cut the nutrients in half.
Discuss with Scott:
- Questions for myself
- organic or clean? based on what message I want to send, what emotion I want people to have be intrigued, be bound, to have raw motion from
- —> messy, wild, crazy —> Organic!
Lab:
- kind of achieve to mimic the movement of the mushroom: when no one near, the mushroom keeps swinging, when ppl come near, the mushroom is aware and then stops.
- problems: swing speed needs to slow down, could be more sensitive and accurate. ASK around. Yo.
Schedule:
- order oyster mushroom kit
- try using mycelium as dough(if it’s doable, project might change)
- physical design
- software design
- LAB in shops
- blue foam: big & small fungi
- wood base box
- put oyster mushroom in it and wait it to grow!!!
what can I do to help hooking up fungi and human?
From this week’s reading of Mycelium Running, I learned how powerful fungus and mycelium is. Sending nutrients back to soil, completing the cycling of nutrients, rebuilding forest, absorbing and decomposing toxins. It seems fungus is almost invincible. How can this information be well known by people, and implemented widely? What can I do to help strengthening the connection between human and fungus? Emotional or functional aspect? What’s the story I can tell? I have to admit, the more I thought, the more unsure I became.
I want fungus be loved.
For this, I’m thinking about changing my project a little bit. I want to intrigue and ripple people’s mind.
- Instead of using mycelium, I’m going to grow oyster mushroom out of a fruit body model, with a camera attach on it(or hidden behind if it’s too difficult).
- Connect the cap and body with motor to make organic move.
- Once people come near(infrared sensor), mushroom stills. Little mushroom come out of holes from the base box.
- The image projected on the wall changes from black to this.
“Everyone is mushroom.” Message sent.
This is also inspired from one line from the book Mycelium Running:
Nature loves communities. When one species is suddenly introduced, the population dynamics shift in response.
The questions I’d love to ask and discuss
- Will this achieve the goal to intrigue and ripple people’s mind?
- Will people be interested in fungus after this experience?
- What’s the information people will have?
- Can this project justify its existence? (<– this one trouble me the most…)