Final Documentation Video: First Version I know that this is not a post worthy of a final project, but I encountered so much trouble with my LED strips and sound during the testing phase of this project. All of these problems and my progress throughout this project will be properly brought together and documented before…
Author: Carlos
INTERACTIVE HOUSE – Final Project Sketch
Ever since I moved into my apartment in Worcester my roommates and I installed LED lights all around our living room and kitchen. They work with the built-in modes, not interacting with anything at all. Additionally, we have a pretty big TV in the living room. Before setting up everything we knew that we wanted…
AudioVisualizer – Computer Audio/video
For this assignment, I decided to do some sort of animation that reacted to audio caught by mu computer mic. I found a very cool tutorial on youtube and changed it up a bit since my computer´s fan is too loud lately. The shape, the color, and the reactiveness of the animation are all changed…
SLAP BET – Meme Remix Sketch
One of my favorite TV shows of all time is How I Met Your Mother. I am not the biggest fan, but what made little 14 year old really love the show are all the inside/recurring jokes throughout the series. A this age, everything for me seemed fun, and decided that I was going to…
VIBE wid IT | Interactive Touch Project by Carlos Velasquez
The idea of my project was to represent exactly what the last couple of months have been for me. SInce COVID caused the entire world to slow down and stay home, I spent SO much time listening to music in my bedroom. I therefore decided to represent the different “vibes” that music brought to me….
Interactive Touch Project Sketch – Vibe Wid It by Carlos Velasquez
For the past months, thanks to COVID, I spent most of my time doing 3 things: Watching TV, vibing to music, and, unfortunately, binge-scrolling through TikTok. I decided to join 2 of them together and do some sort of DJ sound/dance pad. The idea behind my project is to animate 5 different and simple dance…
Mandarin Audio Player Sketch – Carlos Velasquez
Played around a bit and created a patch in Max to take in a mandarin piece touch input and output a song I’ve had stuck in my mind for the past 2 weeks. I was able to use the MakeyMakey board to detect when I touched a mandarin piece and signal my computer to play…
Data Art – Enrollment at WPI by Racial/Ethnic Category – Carlos Velasquez
For my Data Sketch, I decided to represent the major ethnic/racial groups around our campus. According to the WPI data I gathered from https://public.tableau.com/ these are the top 5 ethnic/racial groups around campus: White – 2878 (white torus) Non-resident alien – 423 (red torus) Hispanic/Latino – 423 (green torus) Asian – 214 (orange torus) Black/African…
Enrollment @ WPI by Racial/Ethnic Category
For my Data Sketch I decided to represent the mayor ethnic/racial groups around our campus. According to the WPI data I gathered from https://public.tableau.com/ these are the top 5 ethnic/racial groups around campus: White – 2878 (red torus) Non-resident alien – 423 (yellow torus) Hispanic/Latino – 423 (blue torus) Asian – 214 (green torus) Black/African…
Introduction
Hi there! My name is Carlos Velasquez and I am a junior at WPI double majoring (and suffering) in CS and IMGD. I was born in El Salvador but moved to Panama at 15, so I have this imaginary double-nationality that really defines my personality.In high school, I was forcibly introduced to the adobe suite,…