For this week, I tackled the issue of images not having clarity when photographed. The next image shows the mage quality to start with. This image clearly is not nearly good enough for the art project. The issue was that the original diffusion material, parchment paper, that I was using let through too much light…
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…
Maquette: Jon Venne
My Maquette: My maquette is essentially a cardboard framed box covered in saran wrap. I put holes in the top to promote airflow for the smoke and a small hole in the bottom to hold the incense stick. And at this point, I have been sticking the laser pointer in through the bottom and wiggling it…
Maquette: Brent Reissman
Constructing my maquette was as much a learning experience as much as a proof of concept for my technique for bending light. In constructing models, I found that none of the original 6 types of Scotch Tape that I had originally bought at Target would bend polarized light. Luckily, a friend had a roll of…
Maquette: Isabel Azevedo
For this week, I created a miniature version of my paper cut project with paper, tape, toothpicks, and a paper towel. Creating the maquette has helped me visualize what I need to accomplish for the final project, as well as showed me some issues I may encounter. For example, one thing I noticed is that…
Maquette: Jared Grimm
I have began to set up both the electronic and physical side to my project. For the technical side, I have set up my wifi Arduino board and libraries, and created an program for my Wifi Arduino to connect to a weather service API, and pull temperature data from Worcester for the next 3…
Maquette: Rachel Schiebel
What I have done: I cut and treated a couple slabs of 182 white stoneware and I made a CAD drawing to laser cut and went to the shop and attempted to cut it. What Happened: Stoneware is heat resistant and the laser cutter struggled to get even half way through. Interestingly the silica content…
Maquette: Franck Coly
After taking longer than I wanted and largely debating on whether I even wanted to do the two projects i originally had, i finally went with the “Tron” inspired jacket. I have a bit of background in ECE and a tiny bit of background in CS. I am hoping that with this project, it’ll allow…
Maquette: Karin Plante
Although the two ideas I presented last week are still viable options, I’ve come up with a third that might work better for my schedule and that I feel involves more artistic expression. It is for this idea that I’m presenting my maquette. This idea involves creating a “stained glass” mosaic out of dichroic glass…
Maquette: John Stegeman
For my project I decided to do the first of my two proposals which is show again below for reference. To complete this project I have decided to run the processing power on a Raspberry Pi computer which allows easy expansion for more memory for images, and plenty of processing power to convert and scale…