Background is officially complete Now we are onto the foreground I am Moving onto the houses and getting to the point where I will be adding the glow paint very soon! Super excited for that. for the housing I tried to paint some with a Remarkable fail. So I have sketched some stencils I am…
Everything works – not really :(
I thought I was supposed to fail last week, but I guess the laser cutter decided I’m not done. There were MANY issues with the laser cutter this week. First, the foise one was closed, so the unity one was where I went and there are a lot of inconsistencies with that laser. I spent…
Everything works…
…but only because the things that didn’t work were discarded. There is no more wirebot! This sucks, it wasn’t my original vision, I would have liked to show a physical object, moving smoothly, but maybe that’s a V2 thing. In it’s current configuration, that would have been a bit too jarring. The project itself, however,…
Everything Works (Almost)- John Lemieux
For this week, everything almost works. I focused on drilling mounts into the polycarbonate sheet, allowing for the LED’s to easily be placed. I didn’t realize how many mountings I would need though, resulting in me having to wait a day for more mounts to come in. At the current moment, all of the red…
Everything Working? Maybe?
This week I fully worked out how everything will fit together securely while allowing me to easily access the inside to make any necessary changes. I ended up choosing to make the back panel removable via bolts and threaded inserts in wooden blocks in each corner. There are wooden laser-cut “clips” that are removable so…
Long Animal “Everything” “Working”
I made progress this week, but I still have a lot to do until I can remove the quotation marks from “everything” and “working”. The biggest items on my to-do list are: Electrical Progress I purchased a 5V phone battery bank with a 15000 mAh capacity, which is much higher than I initially planned. Battery…
Failure and Reiteration
The lights, color filters, and black acrylic panels I ordered came in on Tuesday. I found some old plywood with some shapes removed on a laser cutter and set it up at an angle in a cardboard box. I added the strip lights behind the plywood and recorded the projection results in terms of clearness…
Long Animal Epic Fail
It was a good week for failures. I purchased some insulation foam and learned how to use the router in Foisie to cut out the shapes for my mold. Unfortunately, router workspace was not tall enough to be able to cut through 2″ of foam and still clear the stock when moving above the part….
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration – Vanshika
Hello, I definitely did not get as much progress as I would have liked this week because MQP was not doing so well 🙁 I adjusted the dimensions to what I would eventually like to do. Overall the base would be 1000mm or 1m in length, the width is 75mm, and the depth is 75mm….
Failure, Recalibration & Iteration (Inspiration Phase)
Being in the inspiration phase of my project has encouraged failure; on the contrary, I found a few new directions that I can go into. One of them being this manipulation of lights and patterns using geometric shapes capable of reflecting light and the vision of a typical camera. Tools such as the color polyhedron…
The Failures – John Lemieux
The main area that I felt I would struggle in greatly was creating the back template for the LED strips. This is an area that I struggle in because I lack the ability to fully visualize what I want. My first failure came in with ordering the acrylic. Even before getting the material, I had…