The goal of my assignment was to create a scenery while lighting up led’s. I decided on creating a pond. The pond consisted of a swan, two ducks, three koi fish, and lily pads that would light up. The swan and the ducks were origami, and all the materials were decorated using watercolor paint. step…
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Tiktok is a video sharing software that many people around the world use. People are able to record and edit videos up to 3 mins and share it to something called the FYP (For You Page). Many people have became widely known just for participating in a popular trend or posting something someone may deem…
Creative Switch
Pop out blooming rose Materials needed: 2 black sheets of paper sheets of print paper 3 red LEDs conductive fabric tape 3 paper clips or tape colored pencils (optional) glue 3 button batteries Step 1: Decorating – using a sheet of printer paper draw out petals of a rose, cut and color them, then curve…
Assignment 1
For this assignment I didn’t have a particular design in mind. Instead my objective was to explore the basics of color and shapes, while incorporating codes that would enhance those features. I initially began with random shapes but as I worked with the coordinates I slowly built off of that. For some parts I took…
Assignment 1 – Drawing Machine
For the first assignment of the class, I decided to mess around and see what I could do with the basic we were taught in the first couple of weeks of the semester. The Processing sketch is a bit simple, as a I begin with straight line going down the middle as the stem for…
LED Music Visualizer
Music Visualizer Connor Burke May 7, 2020 Materials: LED Strip (Wheel from Amazon) Milti-core wire Soldering Iron Arduino Circuit Playground Arduino Crickit Single Canvas White Gaff Tape White Card stock Board Thumbtacks Step 1: Connect your led strip to the Crickit NeoPixel connector with the soldering iron. Also, make sure the arrow in the…
Final Project: Sound Reactive Sweater
For my final project decided to make a wearable so to experiment with LED Neopixel strips and sound Reactivity. Materials Needed: Soldering Iron kit Alligator Clips Circuit Playground Express Sweater with metal zipper (cannot be plastic zipper) Sandpaper (in case you need to sand off Paint of the zipper if it’s painted) Conductive thread and/or…
The Reluctant Shield (Please Don’t Hit Me!)
The concept behind this project was to make a shield that demonstrably does not want to be hit. It bleeds when you hit it, and if you keep hitting it, nature itself rises up against you for harming the shield. What did shields ever do to you anyway? (Original concept also included as a bonus goal…
Final project: Call And Response
My final project was inspired by Camille A. Brown who is a performative artists and centers her work mainly around African-American experiences. For my project I wanted to do a call and response theme which is a performative act that is well-known in African-American music and rituals. The project is very simple; individuals who have…
Sound Reactive Back-Lit Canvas
For my project, I made a sound reactive back-lit canvas. The lights behind the canvas turn on based on the loudness level of the sound the sound sensor on the Circuit Playground Express picks up. Materials Needed: Your painted canvas A poster board (cardboard or any thin, sturdy material could work too) Soldering iron +…
Morse Code Encoder
Materials Needed: Circuit Playground Crikit (optional) 3 neopixel strips with at least 5 neopixels Thin wire Alligator clips with female end Soldering Iron Hot glue gun Solder Popicle sticks Glass Jars White paint Paint sponge Instructions Step 1 : Paint glass jars with a thin layer of white paint using a wet paint sponge, also paint…
An Extremely Bipolar Device
By Cassie Ogburn & Katrin Svadlena Our goal for this project was to make an interactive art piece to argue with/ let off steam. Inspired by Ulay and Abramović’s AAA-AAA; a performative art piece of which is a video of them just yelling at each other. So, we wanted something to prompt you, and suddenly…