Pure Data Development

This video is part of a series that I am posting to map the development and research of an interactive bin to promote the disposal of litter. This project is part of a masters in Interactive Media and Design at the University of Limerick.

The final prototype development (Full Video)

This video is part of a series that I am posting to map the development and research of an interactive bin to promote the disposal of litter. This project is part of a masters in Interactive Media and Design at the University of Limerick.

Week 15 Semester 2

This video is part of a series that I am posting as a blog about my weekly experience of doing a masters in Interactive Media and Design at the University of Limerick.

Further testing of bin

Further development of interactive bin. Implementing the electronics to function with all the components designed within the bin. Further testing is need to have this bin run successfully. But we are near there : ) 

Testing the Pressure Pads

This video shows the testing of a pressure pad and how simple it is to make it. This then was connected to the Arduino board to activate the on/off states and make the bin interactive.

Arduino development for prototype

This is a video showing the development of using Arduino combined with electronics for the interactive bin that our group was designing. Good fun :  )

Presentation day

Civil Liberties and computer monitoring

Pretzi presentation http://prezi.com/ycut3sei7a-7/computer-monitoring-and-civil-liberties-1/

The presentation went well today and we had lots of fun putting everything together.I have photos of the T-Shirts and I must up-load them. Below is my final though

For Aristotle and Socrates there is nothing more important than the task of cultivating and practicing excellence as a human being, meaning as a human being engaged with making ethical and political judgments and choices. In particular, if we subordinate our cultivation of excellence as ethical and political beings to any other activity e.g. the pursuit of wealth or power – we thereby putt our capacity for reason and ethical judgment at risk.

Socrates and Arastotle argue that if we allow our interests in wealth and power to persuade us to judge and act against our reason and better judgment, we therby harm these capacities (just as we would harm a race horse, to use Socrates’ analogy, by using it as a plow-horse instead.

They both believe that reaching your maximum potential and being happy is still possible with moderate amount of Power and wealth. But the contrast danger is to let out interests in wealth and power overshadow our pursuit of excellence as ethical and political beings – and thereby, to paraphrase Jesus for centries later, to gain the whole world but to lose our souls.

Is it really worth it???