Overview: Psycho (the name of the my project) was a super fun project to work on. Psycho is an Audio Visualizer. There is a teensy 3.2 in the back of the neck along with a microphone, the teensy preforms the FFT with the help of teensy’s audio library. the different frequency bins are then grouped…
Author: Will Schwartz
Polish & Present Submit Assignment: William Schwartz
for this week I did not have a ton to do. I did all the assembly last week, so this week all I had to do was program the teensy, and do the audio analysis. using the teensy audio library made things pretty easy, I am still doing some minor adjustments, but for the most…
Everything Working: William Schwartz
This week a lot of things happened, I assembled the whole head, and put all the lights in it and it took a very very long time to do that… Some cool additions that I made to the head, was I made it chargeable via micro USB, and I also added a lithium ion battery…
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration: William Schwartz
this week I continued to print more parts of the head, I also started to work on the spectrum analyzer. here are some pictures of how things are going. this is what the head currently looks like its coming together, I still have a few more parts to print. this is a sketch…
Maquette: William Schwartz
for this maquette, I created 2 cells of my final project, experimenting with the delusion properties. I decided that it would be best to use the neopixel lights, as they are individually addressable, very bright, and allow me to get a very nice color spectrum without taking up all the pins on my board. I…
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin Overview: April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996 Born in Jamaica, New York Irish Catholic descent Enlisted in the air force 1954-55 Studied art though extension program in Korea Briefly attended Hans Hofmann school of fine art Became a mail clerk ad the Guggenheim Museum Later became an elevator Operator at the MoMA…
Introduction: William Schwartz
My name is William Schwartz. I am a Senior and WPI pursuing a double major in computer science and electrical computer engineering. I have had an interest in art from a very young age. Both of my parents are graphic designers, so growing up my sisters and I were always sprawled out on the floor…