Today I polished off the zoetrope. I began by connecting a few breadboards together to create a length that would support enough super bright leds to accommodate the length of my laser cut slides. Then I hooked up the leds and programmed the sequence in arduino. I did a quick test by holding a slide … Continue reading Simple Zoetrope Part 2 – Completion
I’m trying to make a zoetrope out of four frames of animation. I’m using this gif as a reference point. I separated out the images and traced over each one in illustrator. Then I tried to laser cut them onto pieces of green live edge acrylic. It was all going well on Monday night until … Continue reading Simple Zoetrope, Part 1 – Progress
Lab 2: Digital Input and Output with an Arduino Lab 3: Analog in with an Arduino Lab 4: Servo Motor Control with an Arduino Lab 5: Tone Output Using an Arduino Lab 6: Sensor Change Detection I really enjoyed this one! IDEA FOR PRACTICAL APPLICATION I think that this would … Continue reading Inputs & Outputs
I am obsessed with the work of fabricator, eyewear designer and afrofuturistic artist Cyrus Kabiru. He uses found objects to create these incredible wearables that look as though they are straight out of a science fiction novel. (See more images here) For a while, I’ve been toying with the idea of recreating (and animating!) his … Continue reading A Coded Ode to Cyrus Kabiru
I created 5 identical bud vases for my WK 2 assignment. Truthfully they are irritatingly not identical – this project proved to be more challenging than I expected. The bud vases came from an idea that I pinned on Pinterest years ago… I decided to make something like this, using 5 small bottles, isolating each … Continue reading Mitre Cuts Are A Lot of Work
This week we learned about switches, multimeters and calculating voltage. Lab 1 – a list of components. Lab 2 – Setting up the Breadboard Lab 3 – Electronics Lab 4 – Switches The switches lab was my favourite. I like the potential that they have for interactive games. It would be interesting to … Continue reading Colour Mixing with Switches
I really enjoyed this week’s assignment. We were tasked with adapting our portrait to encompass animation, both governed by the mouse and autonomous. The goal was to create codependent variables to make your code a efficient as possible. I was pleased to find that all of my coding was able to be done in p5.js … Continue reading All of the Variables
I do my best work at night. It’s when I have the ideas that I’m most excited about. Often times this enthusiasm will actually cause me to get out of bed to make a quick prototype of the idea before returning to sleep for the rest of the night. In this moment, I find … Continue reading Wearable “Flashlight”
In week 1 of IPC, we were tasked with developing an idea with a team. My team, comprised of Ellie and Rachel, came up with three interesting ideas – a gel pack, mounted to the back of your neck, that gauges that the environmental temperature and shifts to help bring your body to an acclimatized … Continue reading WK 1 Inventions
Coding is a little like a super power, or at least, that’s how it feels! With code, I can make my computer, a machine that otherwise bears very little interest in me, have a two way conversation, listening and responding to the instructions given, returning interesting visuals along the way. Coding allows inanimate objects like … Continue reading Coding is a Super Power
ASHLEY JANE LEWIS 