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…
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Minecraft Blocks: Everything Working
Kevin Doan and Liam Stearns During this week of development, a significant amount of time had been spent modeling the base cube and test printing all of our designs. When designing the base for our cube tower, we wanted to make sure that we could house our Arduino Nano in side the cube and connect…
Minecraft Block : Tests and Iterations
Kevin Doan and Liam Stearns During this week of testing Kevin and I had made significant progress towards finalizing block functionality. Firstly, we have moved on to using Neo magnets for making electrical connections between led strips and the Arduino. When testing the Neo magnets, soldering them caused them to lose some of their magnetism….
Minecraft Block Maquette
Minecraft Block Maquette Liam Stearns and Kevin Doan Progress During the first week we started with a sketch of the block to check the general idea as of how the block faces will connect together. After agreeing on an idea, Kevin began to 3d model the block and print it, to check sizing and tolerances….
Light Art Concept Proposal
Minecraft Light Up Blocks Kevin Doan and Liam Stearns Goal: Our project is to design 3D printed Minecraft blocks that light up when connected with each other. It will contain: A method to securely stack the blocks on top of each other. A method to allow a connection of subsequent blocks, causing them to light…
Light Artist – Hannu Huhtamo
Hannu Huhtamo is a visual artist from Finland, who has been developing light art since 2008. Huhtamo uses long exposure photography to create organic shapes with high contrast from their surroundings, often creating captivating paintings of flowers and animals.Light painting is an advanced photographic technique, where long exposure times and darkness allow for the ability…
Liam’s Autobiography
My name is Liam Stearns and I am an electrical and computer engineering student from here in Worcester, MA. Art plays a significant role in my life in various ways. To start off, my father is a self taught graphic artist who now teaches his craft at Worcester Technical High School. Throughout my life at…