{"id":1188,"date":"2019-05-01T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2019-05-01T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:26:15","slug":"failure-recalibration-iteration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/jeluna\/failure-recalibration-iteration\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure, Recalibration &amp; Iteration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scaling up my design from the original mock up proved to be one of the most difficult things in this project. Problem number 1 was that the cotton balls were not good at defusing points of light from a single LED. My initial mock up was lit by a string of low output LEDs I had lying around. As a result I didn&#8217;t take into account the fact that my scaled up actual project would by using high powered LEDs but only one per silhouette. The cotton balls simply obscured too much light. I would need to wait until the weekend to find a new material, so in the meantime I started soldering connection onto my fade candy board and played with different colored lighting in the mock up I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134942-996x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1189\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?attachment_id=1189\" class=\"wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134942-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134942-778x800.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134942-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134942-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134947-1024x982.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1190\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?attachment_id=1190\" class=\"wp-image-1190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134947-1024x982.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134947-800x767.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134947-768x736.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134947-313x300.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134956-1024x989.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1191\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?attachment_id=1191\" class=\"wp-image-1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134956-1024x989.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134956-800x773.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134956-768x742.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190408_134956-311x300.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I would by lying if I said I soldered the connection well. Crunched for time I was far sloppier than I should have been, and it ended up costing me the function of one of my LED strips, luckily the shorter one. Fortunately I still had to strips of 64 to work with so I opted to just write off the last strip of 20. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182854-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1192\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?attachment_id=1192\" class=\"wp-image-1192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182854-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182854-612x800.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182854-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182854-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182854.jpg 1885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182904-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1193\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?attachment_id=1193\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182904-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182904-800x515.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182904-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/20190427_182904-466x300.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> Needing a new material to diffuse the light and also hide the inner workings of my project, I went to wallmart where I found polyester quilt batting, a kind of synthetic fiber material used to fill quilts. It looked like it would suit my needs perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaling up my design from the original mock up proved to be one of the most difficult things in this project. Problem number 1 was that the cotton balls were not good at defusing points of light from a single LED. My initial mock up was lit by a string of low output LEDs I&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/jeluna\/failure-recalibration-iteration\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNkLg-ja","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}