Now we have to make something talk to something else...

Ok, so this week's assignment was a little bit different from the others because it was a class assignment instead of an individual one. It also lasted for two weeks instead of one.

The general idea in here is not only to make something to talk to something else, that is usually "easily" accomplished by connecting two things together and figuring out a way of making them being able to talk to each other. This was more interesting as we were supposed to give some physical object the ability to talk to ANYTHING in the world by plugging it into the internet:

This was based on Internet 0 by Neil Gershenfeld, Raffi Krikorian, and Danny Cohen, with the intention of giving the everyday objects the ability to connect to a data network

The class was divided in several groups, since it was a rather time consuming task and Vincent and I were in charge of making a board that could receive the information from the object and could pass it on to the PC. This image shows the design of the board:
This is the final version of the board
And this is the board that gives the ability to an object to send "clicks" through the Internet.

 

The I0 receiver team!