After deciding to stick with straight lines and stripped down symbols for my map project in the last post, I started playing around with ideas for how to humanize the design to keep it from feeling barren. I had stripped out all of the non-essentials to focus strictly on content and utility in the first sketches,…
Tag: design process
LED Grid: Blinking lights!
This week and last, we’ve been working hard to set a budget and optimize the design for the physical object side of the LED grid project. Branden has been developing a list of parts and is starting to lay out the circuit board design (maybe I’ll convince him to do a guest post for that part?). In the…
LED Grid: working toward a design
I wrote about the origins of my LED project and my first tottering steps toward programming in a previous post. Here, I’d like to talk a bit more about the design part of this project. (That’s way more fun, anyway.) For an electronics project like this, there are two aspects to the design: first, what does the…
LED Grid: To learn a programming language
I stumbled into the design world kind of by accident back in March or April. A flyer mysteriously showed up in my mailbox advertising a seminar on presenting data by Edward Tufte, to be held in April in Boston. It turned out that I had a schedule conflict and couldn’t make the seminar, but it…