Justin Geeslin

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  • Algebra Semiotics, 4

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    just as modern biology focuses on molecular structures like DNA rather than on descriptive classifications schemes. … Semiotics should focus on the structure of the sign systems rather than on ad hoc properties of individual signs and their settings.. Fashion, User Interface design, take note.

  • Patches for my Interaction Swatchbook

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    A few needed patches. Imagine a button that can issues a audio stimulus from the audio port. Like state into recording or not, or a query into some state of the device. Bluetooth is a great technology for ambeint state information. Is it a good way to issue a button press? Why wouldn’t this just…

  • thoughts on a web authoring experience

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    going back to a few notes ago where I was looking for some new software to make my web publishing faster and less systematic. I think a blog requires an amount of system, but IMO the web has become less creative and too systematic. Even block-based editors seem too … blocky and stiff. going back…

  • experiments in perceptibility, social and heat

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    My heat insulator design was defeated by a seatbelt. after a few hours the wear became unbearable once again. Undoubtably because it compresses the crochet to where there is no longer an air barrier. Today I’ve flipped it to the other shoulder and the shirt is different. This print gives away the bulge more than…

  • Making inteface swatches & the heat problem

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    The lady in JoAnns told me her husband worked on soft heat coils. PRetty cool.  The thing I want to make first is something I want to wear myself! A voice recorder!  The hardware is ready but its been waiting for a swatch that can protect me from heat.  Once I sew this together, I’ll…

  • Project Jacquard

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    A well over due read.  Any object made using Jacquard textiles can be digitally interactive and computationally responsive.   digital sensing and computation become basic properties of the textile materials — like weight, color, and elasticity. Interested in the computation piece of this. I don’t see any computation power in these fabrics? Going back to read…

  • Finding the right board

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    I feel like I spend a fair amount of time search for the right microcontroller for the project. And I want to consider form factor and battery life, too.If I had a database of all the microcontrollers I care about (the open source hardware ones) I could find the right one for the job sooner.…

  • Today – Adding a board dedicated for detecting touches.

    Today – Adding a board dedicated for detecting touches.

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    I have my new chip for detecting capacitive touch and it is working on new jog wheel swatch! I’m trying to make this very modular so I can swap out widgets/swatches and micros too. There’s a mixture of metal and conductive thread. The I2C stuff does best over metal and everything else can be thread.Also,…

  • Today – Swatchbook vs Wearability

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    The day I honed in on whether to make “swatch book” or something wearable that you might use in experiments.

  • Enter the ESP32 & Bluetooth

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    I bought the extra hardware for single port capacitive touch.As a hub to my swatch book, I need a BLE device / game controller.( Unplugging the stethoscope… for now. ) Right away I’m having trouble connecting to the RedBoard. I’m going to factory reset it and see if that helps. Here’s the command I used:python…