Proposal: For my final project, I thought about all the things I’ve learned and explored so far this semester and what I hadn’t yet. Seeing other people use sensors had me interested in coding for them so I decided that I wanted to do something involving a sensor. The challenges I ran into with my…

Interactive Shadow Box 

I attended Ruth Suehle of Red Hat’s lecture at the Flourish! Conference not knowing quite what to expect. While I’m familiar with the concept of “Open Source”, her lecture expanded this definition and topic to areas outside of pure sofware/code sharing. Her perspective on Open Source as a philosophy was refreshing, optimistic and interesting. While…

What struck me most about Casey Reas’s work was the organic creations and forms that were generated by code and step by step process. For something so particular in geometry and process, one would figure that it would end up looking mechanical or obviously generated. Some of the forms and textures produced look like microbes…

Progress Update:   Still waiting for my servo driver. Started assembling everything and testing servos individually from the arduino. Here is the base for my project completed: Closed completely/open completely Eight control arms to attach servos to mirror pieces.  One servo control circuit using the kit servo and a variable resistor in place of the…

REVISED by 5/6 The first ideas presented to the class  General Feedback and Questions (PRO) +cute idea +instead of canvas background maybe a shadowbox? (CON) -motor can be noisy and distracting -more scenery -how big will it be -too much? motors AND leds AND sound AND coding Posted 4/16 No longer it is a canvas!…

Progress Report After building a prototype, i was able to construct a final model of the puppet. it is about 80% finished. This was the trickiest part. I also figured out how the servo motor would move in order to achieve the correct movement.

Doing some work.. kinda. Nick Savidge

I’ve modified my original proposal quite a bit. Also I am still experimenting a bit, haven’t decided if I want to incorporate a third motor.

So far, I’ve mostly nailed down what I want the general appearance / behavior of my project to be like. I decided to move away from a “fragile” object (for the sake of construction and re-using material) to a “precarious” one, maybe. It’ll be triggered by light, and the general aesthetic will be more lamp(?)-based,…

So far, I was able to get the Servo and the photo resistor to work cooperatively.  Before I started on this project, I thought that I would have to jump through various hoops just to get half way through.  Fortunately, the process was not very painful at all.  It actually only took half an hour…