The final version of my product is largely the same as it was for the polish and present post. I am overall very satisfied with the final product, it is almost exactly what I had envisioned when the concept first came to me, which in art pieces isn’t always the case. One of my biggest…
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Michael Bragg – Polish and Present
I was able to get everything working in my project after some struggles with the laser cutter. I used the laser cutter in Unity rather than Innovation and had no trouble. I slightly altered my design, I experimented with putting “Kobe Bryant” his name at the top, but I decided I liked it better without…
Michael Bragg – Everything Working
The laser cutter in Unity was working, so I was able to laser cut my acrylic, I’ve attached a picture below. As well as using the laser cutter, my addressable LED strips are now working with the Pixelblaze. I soldered a phoenix converter to the pixelblaze, and then was then able to plug the LED…
Failure – Michael Bragg
This week, I didn’t really have one major failures, it was more like several minor ones. One of them is I’ve still been working with my maquette to better diffuse the light. I tried using plastic bags and another piece of acrylic, but it didn’t get the look I wanted. It was suggested on my…
Maquette – Michael Bragg
For my maquette, I went with the proof of concept/thin slice approach. I took one of my lines of text and cut it out of acrylic using the laser cutter. I then spray painted the acrylic so that the light would only shine through the holes the laser cutter made. Then to try and make…
Concept Proposal – Michael Bragg
For my project I plan on using LEDs to make a piece highlighting the career of a famous athlete. I’m going to list their accolades along with a silhouette picture of them and cut that out of a piece of plastic (or some other material) so that the LEDs will shine through creating the image….
Bill FitzGibbons
The light artist I chose was Bill FitzGibbons. FitzGibbons is from San Antonio and has done many pieces close by in the southern United States. FitzGibbons works primarily utilize LED lights as their light sources but he has used other light mediums in the past. He formerly used neon lights as his primary method, however…
Michael Bragg – Introduction
Hi, I’m Michael Bragg. I’m from Billerica, Massachusetts. I’ve always been interested in art, and even participated in art lessons from when I was young. Since then, I’ve continued to take interest in art and still create my own projects. I’ve done some digital art, mostly in WPI courses where I’ve used Adobe Photoshop, Animate,…