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…
Shadow Puppets: Failures
Over the course of the week, my ultimate goal was to upgrade the color tracking software to the next tier. This constitutes more reliable and multicolor tracking, both of which initially failed. For the multicolored monitoring, I tried repeating the initial procedure twice, but this was so heavy on the machine that the program was…
Charles West – Failure, Recalibration & Iteration
To start with the obvious, the main issue I ran into was merely not being as productive as I had planned. It was a very hectic week for various reasons, so I ended up thinking about the project more than anything. This had some clear upsides and downsides, downsides being I’m a bit behind now,…
Failure, Recalibration, and Iteration – Ping Pong Wall
This past week as I was waiting for my parts to come in, I got my hands on an ESP32 and began learning how to solder the pins onto the board. I have very limited soldering experience so I followed along with a YouTube video.
My Failures
At first I thought the hardest part would be the coding. I was having trouble figuring out how to loop it the way I wanted to through the LEDs. I am not the most experienced at coding but I ended up figuring it out for the ultrasonic distance sensor. I’m still not sure if I…
Failure, recalibration, and iteration
The biggest problem I’ve faced this week is the problem of making colorful semi-transparent disks that will rotate with certain frequencies to create a single overlapped picture. So, this week I’ve made some progress on creation of those disks, as well as ordered some of the necessary materials and samples.Here you can see my first…
Not Necessarily a Fail: Pole Light Art
This week, I had the opportunity to work with a whole new toolkit with the help of my friend, Dave. I ordered some stronger light sources, used different lighting methods, and shot with a Canon EOS R6 . For light sources on my body, I used these bands from Amazon. I placed them on my…
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….
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration I used my phone camera for a test run out in the woods behind where I work and although it worked for an initial test, the phone picture quality was not good enough for a useable final. I am going to use my sisters camera for the final photos because it…
Maquette – Ping Pong Wall
I know very basically how I am going to attack this problem. As a proof of concept using just what I have laying around, I have created a mini ping pong ball light feature using 1 LED and 1 ball. It’s not much, but it does demonstrate exactly how simple this project can be when…