Like I already said, last week this project consumed my life spending many many hours designing the hearts, prepping for engraving, actually engraving two, and planning for the circuit set up. Because of that I had a lot of work to catch up on from other classes preventing me from doing much more to the…

This week I faced dozens of problems related to this project and its assembly, so I had to redo almost everything I was working on..I understand that it is a normal process of learning but it gave me really hard time.So, almost last minute, I had to change the way my mechanism will make the…

This week was quite a doozy, as everyone following along may remember from last week’s post, I was faced with debugging and fixing an error in my code that caused the entire program to crash whenever it was run. I’m happy to report that after days of hunting I finally found the problem and corrected…

Despite previous setbacks, I think there is a glimmer of hope I will be able to get this done to the degree I want it accomplished. There were some setbacks, primarily in regards to the prototyping I had been working on. The main one, while good for idea testing, was too high of a scale…

This week I have been making progress on my final installation. It is not fully functioning yet. I am currently finishing up the mechanical build before moving on to the wiring of the LEDs. Currently I have a polycarbonate sheet that I am about to drill 500 holes into for each of my LEDs to…

During this last week, I was finally prepared to paint the sky with the different colors I found while painting sitting in LED lights. I decided that I was going to paint the sky with the colors and then also add birds on top of the sky to give they sky and birds a movement…

Taking into consideration that this is an exploration piece where I don’t have a clear image of the final version, I think it’s safe to say that things are going according to plan. This last week I worked with the images we previously shot and edited those RAW files. I would have liked to follow…

During this last week, I made massive improvements to my project. The duel color tracking is working much smoother than it was before as I was able to trim off some redundant functions to help the code run faster. I also got some initial testing set up in my room, with a small projector and…

So, after trying multiple methods with the glass (using more of the glass etching cream, using vinyl, doing the inverted image with glass etching cream, using different distances between the frames of the glass, etc.) it turned out that the frosted glass was not transparent enough to see the light through. Because of this, I…

In getting successful tests I looked at a variety of locations and although there are some locations that would have looked beautiful, there were too many complications that would not allow for me to choose them. For example if it was in a public place I would have to spend about 12 hours doing nothing…

While there is still a ways to go, much progress was made this week! For starters, I fully modeled bases for all the interior pieces for the box. There will likely be some size alterations, and I need to put in the grooves for the El Wire now that I have tested it on the…