This final week has been spent on many hours of code debugging and adjusting to fit my array, wiring the power and ground correctly to all 500 LEDs, and realizing the LEDs have a data in side and data out side (seems extremely obvious in hindsight).
Shadow Puppets: Final Documentation
I believe it was Plato who wrote the Allegory of the Cave. A thought experiment where people who have been imprisoned all of their life with their heads restrained to look at projections cast on the wall by a fire. To these people, the shadows are their reality, as they know nothing else. The goal…
Final Documentation: Music Box Toy
This is the final post for my Humanities and Arts Practicum!The technical concept of my design was inspired by the music toy box and kaleidoscope: the toys of my childhood. This purely mechanical construction was powered by the winding mechanism with the key placed outside of the wooden box. Therefore, the key’s release produced the…
Long Exposure Pole Dance
I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to incorporate my hobby into this project. My goal was to perform a range of pole dance moves in varying lighting conditions to see what interesting visuals I could create. I started out taking pictures with my Pixel 4 camera and progressed to taking photos and…
Final Documentation: Minecraft Blocks
By: Liam Stearns and Kevin Doan When developing ideas for this project, we wanted to find common interest between us – among our search, we discovered that Minecraft was an essential part of our childhoods. After finding this out, we wanted to incorporate this theme into our light art project. We wanted to do something…
Polish and Present: First Video Edits
This week I took a new set of pictures and videos using a Canon EOS Rebel T7 that I rented from the ATC. There were definitely some more lessons learned here. The hardest part was getting the shot to autofocus in the dark. I took photos and videos over a couple evenings and I struggled…
Sunrise Adventure: Final Documentation
Initial Concept Proposal “Sunrise Adventure” was one of my initial ideas where I wanted there to be movement within the sky and the water. I wanted the light source to come from the sun where it is centered like a sunrise/sunset scene. I wanted the sun to be an LED board that changes colors smoothly…
The Things You Do To Me: Final Documentation
About: I created The Things You Do to Me in order to show how people can influence one another whether it be social anxiety, love, fear, etc. I showed this by having engraved acrylic hearts of two different styles and lit them in sequentially in order to make it look like the heart is beating….
Polish & Present… more like failure week
This week was less of an aesthetic focus than I would like and more of a mad scramble. My 42×34″ acrylic panel completely snapped in half forcing me to purchase a new one and redrill all 500 holes again. Nightmare.
Charles West – Final Documentation
This week, at long last, the project came to a close. It was a long week, with numerous steps of production. Earlier this week, I finished up the various modeling needed for the prints, and began the process of printing the parts. I modified some of the models to have larger tolerances than my original…
Final Documentation
Through the term I was set on doing my project based upon how natural light changes through the hours of a day. I wanted a way so show just how much natural light changes each day on the surface of objects, but also when it is reflected off of objects. I originally had the idea…
Polish and Present
Kevin Doan and Liam Stearns During this final week of development, we had assembled another block to add onto our stack. This time around however, we ran into many issues. One of the issues is that if the magnets had not aligned perfectly, no electrical connection would be established between the blocks. When testing, we…