This week I got my hands on color gel filters and cut them to fit the shape of my flashlight. That means I can finally have some green leaves, and use practically any other color I want. I went to Wachusett Mountain and found what I thought was a good spot to do the final…
Failure – Andrew Mesa
I had two major failures this week when constructing the tree structure and attaching the LEDs to the structure. Failure #1 was the PVC pipe I purchased was too small to string the LEDs through twice. I only accounted for stringing the lights through the PVC pipe once when purchasing the materials. However, to allow…
Failure – Liam Hoyle
This week I got a new camera for my long exposures. It was a little more difficult to figure out than the iPhone camera, but the final images looked much better. I experimented with new tools such as my leaf shaped light and flashlight. I previously thought the hardest part of the project was going…
Failure – Stevie Frisch
I definitely failed this week. I spent 4 days during the long weekend up in Vermont in an attempt to capture the foliage, and with aluminum wire, electrical tape, and my bright LED light in my trunk, I thought I was going to get some very cool long exposures with the mountains. I had my…
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…
Failure – Codey Battista
This week, I focused on the laser cutting portion of my project and how it could pose some challenges later on in the process. When I do the engraving, I want to dig into the acrylic a little, however, I don’t want it to go too much into the material or show burn marks. Burn…
Flynn Duniho Failure
This week I tried to get fur working. That uhhh… didn’t really work that well. I have to up the hair density a ton to even start to get something that doesn’t look terrible, and even then, I’m having issues with weird clumping and seams. I can shorten the hair on the ears, in fact…
Maquette – Andrew Mesa
The maquette for this week is a demonstration of connecting to the Pixel-Blaze and creating a model of the LED strip to create a pattern on. The pixel-blaze was fully initialized and now creates its own WIFI network when plugged in, which can be connected to. Once a connection with the pixel-blaze is formed, a…
Maquette – Amelia Jones
My maquette is more of a starting point. My first set of lights has come in and I am using floss the length of the lights to see how many designs I can make with each EL piece. I have also outlined the battery box on the bottom of the shoe to see how big…
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…
Maquette – Stevie Frisch
For my maquette, I decided more to just dive straight in rather than make a mock-up, mainly because it seemed almost impossible to create a maquette when a lot of the next two weeks are going to be devoted to figuring out a formula for these long exposure shots that works well. Thus, I decided…
Maquette – Liam Hoyle
For my Maquette, I experimented with some different colored glow sticks to make a simple tree design. The iPhone camera worked well. The final products were a little blurry. I think this was due to a combination of me not using the remote shutter release included with the tripod and having it set up on…