{"id":764,"date":"2009-11-13T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T22:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2009-12-14T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T03:40:26","slug":"phys-comp-midterm-balance-board-media-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/phys-comp-midterm-balance-board-media-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Phys Comp Midterm: Balance board video controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my Physical Computing midterm, I worked with Andrea Wolf and Sindy Butz to create a balance board that controls a video in Processing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of me demonstrating for our class.<br \/>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8187147&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8187147&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8187147\">Balance Board Media Controller<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2331345\">Allison Walker<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The way it works: User steps on the board, which completes a switch inside the board. An accelerometer inside the board reports back to Processing which way the user is leaning. Right &#8211; fast forward. Left &#8211; slow down. Tilt forward &#8211; screen gets darker. Tilt backward &#8211; screen lightens.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos of us during prototyping stage and assembly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alliwalk\/sets\/72157622994596546\/show\/\">Here&#8217;s a slideshow on Flickr.<\/a><br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-764 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/phys-comp-midterm-balance-board-media-controller\/img_2806\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_2806-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/phys-comp-midterm-balance-board-media-controller\/img_2807\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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Here&#8217;s a video of me demonstrating for our class. Balance Board Media Controller from Allison Walker on Vimeo. The way it works: User steps on the board, which completes a switch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/phys-comp-midterm-balance-board-media-controller\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phys Comp Midterm: Balance board video controller&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,4,77,76,122],"tags":[116,85,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}