I used Wash by Mae Krell. I rotoscoped the laundry moving in the machine, and then did an audio based animation inside the machine. This was made in After Effects, Photoshop, and Animate. The font used was FF Providence on Adobe Fonts.
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What did I accomplish this week?
- I fully gutted my lamp, now it’s just the shell.
- I made sure the arduino and accompanying wires will fit in the base of the lamp.
- I received the items I had ordered in the mail, and found good documentation on the LCD on canvas.
- Started to consider a sound component, but still unsure about that.
- Looked at how far back the neopixel would go in the lamp head.
What do I plan to have done by next week?
- Definitely need to push this week. I’m going to get working on the neopixel, as it definitely was intimidating when I first looked at it this week.
- Keep working on the LCD
- Start measuring and figuring out if I need anything else before I get too close to the end.
What was the most challenging part of the project this week?
- Getting started. I have so much going on that getting going is seeming really overwhelming. I am trying to break it into sections. I will do that below just for my own sanity.
Breaking into parts what I need to do
- Test neopixel
- Test RTC with LCD
- Test RTC with neopixel
- Test how to get LCD working properly
- Input of time
- How long the wake up sequence will be, or how fast the lights will get brighter
- Turning on normal lamp vs sleeping sequence
- Cutting apart the lamp base for input area to connect to computer
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What did I accomplish this week?
- I took apart my lamp.
- I figured out what to get for the project, including getting a RTC, which I had not planned for previously.
- I ordered my parts, so they will get here with enough time for me to work for a while.
- I started to look into the LCD screen, looking at resources online for projects with the LCD screen.
What do I plan to be done with by next week?
- Fully gut the lamp, figure out if there’s anything wrong with it.
- Ensure that everything will fit or figure out another base if it will not all fit.
- Start working with the neopixel ring, as well as the power source to the wall, get that to work seamlessly without any time component.
- Get the LCD screen to show Hello World, and continue testing with LCD.
Weekly goal for week 3
- Start to work with the neopixel ring and time, tie the RTC to the neopixel ring.
- Get the LCD screen and RTC working together, and tie the RTC to the light and the LCD screen.
Weekly goal for week 4
- Catch up on anything I had fallen behind on, push forward to get a little break for Thanksgiving.
- Continue to work out any problems, potentially figure out audio component if I have time.
- Get any problems solved or planned out to solve later, in order to get the project done before 12/13
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I have my creative brief linked above and my mood board below. I am really excited for this project as I think working with a song specifically will be exciting, especially since I am planning on rotoscoping at least some parts of the song.
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What did I accomplish this week?
- I accomplished getting feedback on my idea. I think I will add a noise element, but it will be gentle at first and then louder as the light gets brighter.
- I took my lamp that I already had apart and determined what I needed to get in order for my project to work properly.
What do I need done by next week?
- I am going to start learning the LCD screen, I think that may be the hardest part. Very worst case I end up not having a clock, and just not having a display of the time, it just being internal. I will start the code and have something, even if it is only internal.
- I want to finalize the parts list and order everything I need by next week.
- By next week I will also have fully disassembled the lamp and made it ready for the parts, and make sure everything will fit.
What are my first components, connections or features I need to implement?
- Getting the lamp body ready (holes, make sure everything will fit)
- Getting the code started and to work
- Finalizing the list of everything I need to order
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For Assignment 6 we needed to connect Arduino and Processing both from Arduino to Processing and vice versa.
All code is below.
https://github.com/brummond/assignment6
Part 1:
For Part 1 we needed to connect the processing button ability to the arduino’s passive buzzer. My goal was to get it to play “Play That Funky Music” but everything I tried ended up sounding like a horrible alarm going off so I decided to move on for my (and my neighbors/roommates) best interest. I did however, get the button to click, change colors, and turn on the passive buzzer. See the video below for a demonstration, and the link above for the code.
Part 2:
For part 2 we were to use the graph framework to convert the joystick movement to the processing sketch. I wanted to get the code to work in a way that would change the background color slightly when the button was pressed, or clicked down, but to no avail. Thankfully I got what I needed to done, and enjoyed the process. The ribbon cables were a huge help and although there were some weird jumps as seen on the screen, I think overall the code worked pretty well.
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Reflecting back on Project 1, I have a lot of different ideas but overall I got it done, and made it work with the limited time I had.
Creatively I think I did well on this project. I definitely had large aspirations and I think that I am often held back by my technical ability. I do think that aiming high is beneficial in terms of getting as far as possible and not thinking in a technical way allows one get as far as they can and ends up going beyond what may have thought to be impossible before.
Tactically I did more than expected, but not as well as I wanted or what I had aimed for. I think my creativity often goes beyond what tactically I can handle, or have time for. I am happy that I learned more about how to use a library, as frustrating as it was, it felt accomplishing to get there.
Time wise I spent a lot of time figuring out the library. I wanted to put more time into the information and content. I am glad I got the library working, but I am frustrated with how long it took. I would definitely start earlier next time with the library.
What went well, I am glad that I got the library to work, and I think the fact that it looked similar to vinyl flipping was really successful. I also think that the text aligned well, and colors changing between different slides made it look like things were moving.
What didn’t go well, I wanted to do something different with the color scheme. I thought that the colors were okay, but looking back it would have been more interesting to have had a stronger color palette. I also think more content and working harder on the front page would’ve been cool.
For future projects I would start figuring out the library earlier. I would also allot more time for figuring out everything I needed to do and making sure I got through what I needed to. I also think starting earlier on breaking down what I needed to do would’ve helped, it definitely was overwhelming and that hindered me from getting started.
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I worked really hard on the cassette animation, and I overall really enjoyed how it turned out. I think that overall it was a fun project and I liked the topic that I picked!!
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For Milestone 3 we needed our MVP up and running. I got my MVP finished. As always, I want to do more but this is where I cut myself off.
I ended up figuring out my library and getting it to look like an album cover, I decided to flip between two colors to highlight the cube effect and ended up focusing my efforts on using Slidr.
Slidr was frustrating at first. I did not have the best relationship with the documentation around it and ended up finding someone else who had used it, which pushed me toward my goal of understanding the library and getting through the information. After I understood the library (which was extremely exciting) I was glad that I got it figured out. Slidr is clean, and once I figured out what I needed to do, the breadcrumbs and the arrows look really good.
I am really happy about how it turned out, in retrospect I could have but more effort into the color scheme. But figuring out an animation library was something that was really accomplishing.
If I had more time I would love to do a vinyl loading screen and an animation with how it’s made, but overall I am just really happy that I got the library to work and look clean.
Delaney Brummond 