Author Archives: Philip Zak

For my project I would like to create an autonomous SpyderBot. Since David aka deadly bannanas and I have a similar idea, we will put our minds together and work on it together. Since David, has more experience with the Arduino/Processing … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, I was unable to go to Chris Stapleton’s presentation. So my post is going to be based off what I read on his site. After looking through his site, for some reason the movie Gamer ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034032/ ) came to … Continue reading →

After looking at the tinkerkit site, I have a better idea of materials I will need to create my spiderbot. Obviously, a motor, not sure if I should get the micro or regular. I guess my decision will be based … Continue reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D1L3o88GKew i’m not sure if the arduino board is the brains behind the device, but this is pretty cool.

source: George Takei’s Facebook page

Who hear remembers this scene from X-Men 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhwTROzvZzU? What would you say if with some time and patience, you can replicate this action? (hopefully without killing/injuring anyone, including yourself) If your answer is, I don’t believe you, prove it. … Continue reading →

When I first saw a 3D printer, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. While looking through the Maker Faire site, one project stood out to me and that was a 3D printer that can basically print chocolate, Chocolate 3D … Continue reading →

For this week’s journal entry, out of the many people involved in the Designing Interactions book, I chose to talk about Larry Tesler. The reason I picked Larry is because we are both programmers, even though we program different things, … Continue reading →

After scouring the web for ideas, I think I have a general idea of what I want to do and that is to create something robotic, possibly a robot spider. I am still not sure of how I want to … Continue reading →

My name is Philip. I am a transfer student from Borough of Manhattan Community College and that is where I became a programmer. I have experience with handful of languages. To be specific: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, PHP, MySql, AJAX, … Continue reading →