Tarang’s Final Documentation!

I have had so much fun with this, especially the final putting together, including the documentation! Big thanks to Lego club for their support!

Tarang Shah’s Polish and Present Post

My project is in Fuller labs now. I’m not sure what more to say about it. It would be much cleaner for the wires to go from below, but it’s too difficult to make that happen with these tools (NXTs).

Tarang Shah Everything working blog post

I posted this late because I completely forgot to take videos of my project (so I brought my stuff to class, since I couldn’t show it in the day), and attached the videos of everything working here. I do get patterns on the wall, but I was hoping for stronger colors from the cels. Interestingly,…

Tarang’s in-progress failure post

Hello again everyone! I thought the biggest challenge was going to be figuring out how the motor would spin the paper without spinning the light, and then I walked by lego club in Foisie by accident. They gave me these NXT motors with a hole in them! How cool is that?! (see the image) I’m…

Tarang’s Maquette

This isn’t a very detailed maquette sadly, in part because I was struggling with the patterns I could have. I will definitely need to do more work on this to get more interesting patterns. The maquette shows that: The resolution should be adequate. I can create interlocking patterns with rotating paper. I still need to…

Tarang’s Light Art Concepts

Idea 1: Some Swirly Shadows (SSS). Basically, I will make 3 patterned sheets, roll them into a cylinder, and put a light inside them. They will be rotating and casting shadows around them. The shadows are of different colors: either the sheets with the patterns are colored, or the lights themselves are colored (and can…

Chul Hyun Ahn

Chul Hyun Ahn was born in Pusan, Korea in 1971. He got his BFA at Chu Gye University for the Arts in Seoul in 1997, and his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD in 2002. He lives and works in Baltimore and has frequent exhibitions at the C. Grimaldis Gallery, also…

Introducing Tarang (myself)

Hi. I’m Tarang. Nice to meet you!I’m a civil engineering major, and I like drawing. Enjoy this random page. It says a lot about me. The self-portrait above is from the figure drawing course I took. If you’re asking me where I’m from, that’s a tough question. I graduated from high school in India, and…