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		<title>Tinkering at Tinker.it in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am now in London, spending two weeks working with the nice folks at Tinker.it. The main goal of my time in London is to work on their educational toolkit called TinkerKit and see how it can be further developed. It is really exciting to develop such a kit because it has so many possibilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardboard poking trio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about this simple poking mechanism for over two years now, but I never actually spent the time to build it. Now it&#8217;s a thing of the past! I took 3-4 hours later yesterday and this morning to make this first iteration out of foamcore, cardboard, pins and hot glue. I used three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An introduction to shape memory alloys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received my Flexinol Deluxe kit, a box full of samples and little experiments to discover the great world of shape memory alloys (SMA). I have been fiddling with this stuff before but I never got farther than the regular &#8220;amazing spring&#8221; setup: you stretch a spring beyond its point of deformation, then if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using sound for actuation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound and touch are very close in many ways: one can literally feels audio if the parameters are right. As presented by Roope Takala (Nokia Research), stimuli from audio and haptic overlap a great deal between 100 and 2000 Hz. Today I was helping a first year student to build a little x-y laser scanner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangible compass, part 3: say Hi to N810</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an iteration following part 1 and part 2 of the tangible compass project. The focus of this revision is an excuse to get my hands dirty with Arduino and a N810. Following the good instructions from Dave Vondle at IDEO, I was up and running quickly with an Arduino talking directly to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangible compass, part 2: using a stepper motor</title>
		<link>http://www.partly-cloudy.com/blog/2008/12/tangible-compass-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an iteration following part 1 of the tangible compass project. To obtain a full 360 degres and limitless rotation for the pointer, I decided to swap the servo motor for a stepper motor. The stepper motor I have is relatively small, but still much bigger and bulkier than the initial servo. It also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangible compass, part 1: getting the basics to work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main component for this little experiment is a HMC6343 compass module with tilt compensation (from Honeywell, datasheet). This little IC is great because you can tilt and hold it on the side and the heading will be right. Regular compass modules just failed when there are not totally held flat. I help some colleagues [...]]]></description>
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