Date: 20-06-08, present: Danielle & Richard van Bemmelen I asked my friend Richard to look at the instability of our current heart rate sensor. Richard is a programmer and engineer so exactly the right man for the job 🙂 It was kind of hard to analyze the current device as everything was soldered together. But […]
Category Archives: e-Pressed
Meeting June 6 2008 in Breda
Report of the meeting at Danielle’s place in Breda from 11 to 15 hours, 06/06/08. Present: Anja, Barbara and Danielle. Ideally we want to do the sensing inside the material and not with separate sensors. There is sensitive foam which responds to stretching and pressing. It is used to measure breathing, shoulder movement and shoulder blade […]
Heating
I’ve done a little research into heating elements. As stated in the book ‘Pysical computing’ the firm Minco has a wide range of heat sensors and elements. Interesting are the flexible sensors and elements. Both come in very small sizes. The sensors can measure very small temperature differences, I’ll seen numbers like 0,04C. Here’s an example: Polyimide […]
Meeting 04/04/08 @ Anjas’ studio
Meeting at Anja’s studio. 04-04-08 from 11 to 15.30. Present: Anja, Barbara (till 14.30), Danielle. Barbara has done research into the chakra’s but found the possibilities limited (one line) and the appearance too esoteric. So we’ll have to choose the area’s we want to work with ourselves. We may use some of the underlying theory […]
Meeting 12/03/08 @ Anja’s studio
Our first meeting after the workshop. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Present were Anja, Barbara and Danielle. We started off by rethinking the project: Is it necessary for our project to work with pressure points? Working with them is very precise work that has to be done by a human to be effective. Maybe […]