Tutorials

Tutorial: Android OSC Communication

Introduction Most of the time, there are already existing apps that send readily-available sensor data from your phone to your computer via OSC. But what if you have another device that connects to your phone that you want to use as an extra sensor?

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Tutorial: Android OSC Communication

Introduction Most of the time, there are already existing apps that send readily-available sensor data from your phone to your computer via OSC. But what if you have another device that connects to your phone that you want to use as an extra sensor?

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Tutorial: Leap Motion to PureData

Introduction  The Leap Motion is a sensor that can be used to read hand gestures. It provides spatial coordinates from each joint on each finger. If you’re interested in using the Leap Motion sensor with puredata to control sound through gesture,

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Tutorial: Leap Motion to PureData

Introduction  The Leap Motion is a sensor that can be used to read hand gestures. It provides spatial coordinates from each joint on each finger. If you’re interested in using the Leap Motion sensor with puredata to control sound through gesture,

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Tutorial: How to Solder Properly

Introduction In Intro to Physical Computing, many projects require a skill of soldering. For those who don’t know, soldering is the practice of conjoining two metal materials together by the melting of a third material (solder) that melts and bridges

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Tutorial: How to Solder Properly

Introduction In Intro to Physical Computing, many projects require a skill of soldering. For those who don’t know, soldering is the practice of conjoining two metal materials together by the melting of a third material (solder) that melts and bridges

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Tutorial: Pixy (CMUcam5)

This tutorial will focus on the correct way to set up and receive information from a Pixy using an Arduino Uno.  Please note that cmucam.org also provides instructions for the Pixy in the Pixy Quick Start Guide on their WIKI.

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Tutorial: Pixy (CMUcam5)

This tutorial will focus on the correct way to set up and receive information from a Pixy using an Arduino Uno.  Please note that cmucam.org also provides instructions for the Pixy in the Pixy Quick Start Guide on their WIKI.

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Tutorial: nrf24l01+

Introduction The nrf24l01+ is often the best solution for close range communication between arduino based devices. They are extraordinarily cheap, do not require a wireless network, and any number of them can talk to eachother at once. However, there are

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Tutorial: nrf24l01+

Introduction The nrf24l01+ is often the best solution for close range communication between arduino based devices. They are extraordinarily cheap, do not require a wireless network, and any number of them can talk to eachother at once. However, there are

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Wireless Modules for Physical Computing

Some of our favorites at this moment (a preliminary document); the live-editable document is here. Name Price Ease of usefrom 1 (easy) to 5 (hard) Connects to… Breakout manufacturer protocols one to one one to many many to one many

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Wireless Modules for Physical Computing

Some of our favorites at this moment (a preliminary document); the live-editable document is here. Name Price Ease of usefrom 1 (easy) to 5 (hard) Connects to… Breakout manufacturer protocols one to one one to many many to one many

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How to charge LiPo battery with Team Tenergy

1. Connect “Power” and “Balance” to corresponding ports; it would be something like this: 2. Power on Team Tenergy charger station; hit Esc (the leftmost button) coming to the top menu. Choose “LiPo BATT” for PROGRAM SELECT. The screen should show

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How to charge LiPo battery with Team Tenergy

1. Connect “Power” and “Balance” to corresponding ports; it would be something like this: 2. Power on Team Tenergy charger station; hit Esc (the leftmost button) coming to the top menu. Choose “LiPo BATT” for PROGRAM SELECT. The screen should show

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Get your RPI connecting CMU-SECURE WIFI

At the request of the Carnegie Mellon University Information Security Office (ISO), the prior contents of this page were redacted on 2017-08-11 by IDeATe technical staff. As a reminder, CMU Computing Policy requires maintaining the confidentiality of your Andrew account credentials.  As such, it

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Get your RPI connecting CMU-SECURE WIFI

At the request of the Carnegie Mellon University Information Security Office (ISO), the prior contents of this page were redacted on 2017-08-11 by IDeATe technical staff. As a reminder, CMU Computing Policy requires maintaining the confidentiality of your Andrew account credentials.  As such, it

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Getting Started with Rhino 3D

Getting Started with Rhino COMPANY McNeel: The company that makes Rhino3D Rhino3D: The main website Rhino3D Tutorials: The official documentation COMMUNITY The Rhino3d wiki: community developed site with all things Rhino Rhino3d newsgroup: people asking/answering questions COMMANDS Official Command List

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Getting Started with Rhino 3D

Getting Started with Rhino COMPANY McNeel: The company that makes Rhino3D Rhino3D: The main website Rhino3D Tutorials: The official documentation COMMUNITY The Rhino3d wiki: community developed site with all things Rhino Rhino3d newsgroup: people asking/answering questions COMMANDS Official Command List

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CAD/CAM for Everyday People

Online repositories of shared 3d models: Thingiverse: “MakerBot’s Thingiverse is a thriving design community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things. “ SketchFab: “Sketchfab is the leading platform to publish, share and embed interactive 3D content, anywhere online. “

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CAD/CAM for Everyday People

Online repositories of shared 3d models: Thingiverse: “MakerBot’s Thingiverse is a thriving design community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things. “ SketchFab: “Sketchfab is the leading platform to publish, share and embed interactive 3D content, anywhere online. “

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