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Here is the full size potato battery. It is made from a plank of oak, with a plate of zinc and a plate of copper screwed to it. The metal plates have dimensions 80mm x 1000mm, and were chosen so … Continue reading →

The ‘smell box’ has finally arrived! It is based upon the same container as the prototype (so currently a bit large), and uses the same low power PC blower to move the air around. A 4N35 opto-isolator is used to … Continue reading →

The Sound Box has had another update, and now includes an external speaker socket. this means that it can be plugged into an external amplifier/speaker or some other output device that can handle the analog signal. The image below shows … Continue reading →

For one of the forthcoming workshop at MERL, we might explore how potatoes can produce energy using a setup similar to this, and demonstrate that you can do more with a potato than boil it, mash it or make chips … Continue reading →

The (temporary) sound boxes have been updated so that they can be triggered via littleBits circuits. Each box now has two littleBits connectors at one end – one for input, and one for output. They have been tested using a … Continue reading →

The pilot workshop at MERL was based upon two main activities, both relating to sound. The first activity involved looking for objects around the museum that could have produced specific sounds that we provided on custom-built sound players (which we … Continue reading →

We chose to use Arduino in the Sensory Objects project as it is a relatively easy to use microcontroller platform which is easily reconfigurable and flexible enough to allow experimentation. We had hoped that our co-researchers would be able to … Continue reading →