{"id":3370,"date":"2011-03-26T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T09:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T12:53:43","slug":"getting-physical-with-mathematics-with-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"Getting physical with mathematics using MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My passions include mathematics, mathematical software and gadgets. \u00a0So, I instantly fell in love with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hownottoengineer.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=70&amp;Itemid=77\">LED Cube<\/a>. \u00a0The programming was done in C but MATLAB was used for some of the prototyping.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Sy1fgJNiklA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you prefer something more physical then how about the MATLAB-controlled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tcmtechnologyblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/3-d-function-machine.html\">3D function machin<\/a>e?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tcmtechnologyblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/3-d-function-machine.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/images\/random\/functionmachine2.jpg\" alt=\"MATLAB function machine\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you prefer a more retro, aural kind of a vibe?  MATLAB-controlled carol singing dot-matrix printers anyone?<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NcmP6fzj2KM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>In case it isn&#8217;t clear.\u00a0 None of the three projects above are my work, they are other people&#8217;s work!\u00a0 I just think they are cool!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to have a play?<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d like to use MATLAB as a way into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physical_computing\">physical computing<\/a> then maybe the following resources will help you. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think that they were used in the projects above but if I were to start playing with such things then I probably begin with one of these.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.cn\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/27843-arduino-io-package-slides-and-examples\">MATLAB and Arduino<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/academia\/beagleboard\/\">MATLAB and Beagleboard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/academia\/hardware-resources\/\">MATLAB and hardware for project based learning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My passions include mathematics, mathematical software and gadgets. \u00a0So, I instantly fell in love with the LED Cube. \u00a0The programming was done in C but MATLAB was used for some of the prototyping. 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