My final project symbolizes “Women In STEM”. The old wedding style dress symbolizes the old perspective of women that we are trying to change. This comes through in both the ideals of wedding traditions themselves and the simple white color of the dress which is meant to symbolize purity and virginity. All of the technology…
Author: Catherine Roberts
Final Project Concept – Catherine Roberts
My final project is a dress that changes color with movement. The color change will take place using LEDs on the skirt and thermal color changing paint atop heater fabric on the corset. An Adafruit FLORA board and a FLORA accelerometer will control if and how quickly the colors change. The accelerometer will provide information…
Catherine Roberts – Computer Vision Gestures
For this project, I was inspired by Daniel Rozin’s interactive mirrors. I liked how he used interesting mediums to create the silhouette of the person looking in the mirror. I decided my medium would be pixels generated using the low resolution jit.pwindow object. The “mirror” is the built in camera on my laptop and uses…
Catherine Roberts – Paper Nature Concept Art
For my project I plan on making four paper mache trees with LEDs on it to make them sparkle like they are covered in snow. Also I am going to make a silhouette of a person with LEDs behind them that will be animated to look like footsteps in the snow. Lastly, I want to…
Catherine Roberts – Meme Remixer
The meme I decided to remix is the ‘Trump Draws a Kat’ meme from last year. My remixing includes inserting other memes that seem to react to the original like a react video. Additionally, I added sound effects that mimic a crowd and when played together simulate a somewhat balanced liberal to conservative crowd. I…
Paper Nature Project (Revised)
My paper nature project consists of a wintery scene featuring a birch tree holding a tree house. Both of these objects are painted with conductive paint and attached to the MaKey MaKey. Each object is connected to a different port on the MaKey MaKey, which has been reprogrammed to produce letters instead of the original…
Catherine Roberts – Interactive Animation
For my animation I found an image online that I really liked and decided to animate that. There were two figures in the photo that I wanted to use for one of my mini animations, so I photoshoped them out of the background image. I also photoshoped the figures themselves and drew in some new…
Animated Abstraction – Catherine Roberts
I wanted to do something different for this assignment, so I decided to make a whole new abstraction. I was inspired by the fact that it was Halloween yesterday and my love for old videogames and decided to make my own abstraction using a ghost from PAC-MAN. The ghost was a pain to make, but…
Catherine Roberts – Geometric Abstraction
I was inspired by Sonia Delaunay’s “Rythmes Colores” collection for my geometric abstraction. I love the simplicity of her artwork and how the colors flow seamlessly from one circle to the next. My favorite pieces were the ones with her circles stacked on top of each other. The smaller circles inside the larger circle made the…
Catherine Roberts – Bio & Artwork
Hi! My name is Catherine Roberts, I am a sophomore ECE major from New Hampshire. I have had some experience with electronic arts from high school. I primarily used Arduino to make light art with LEDs and RGB LED pixels. I also used Makey Makey to create interesting controls for a game that I programmed….