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So I have not posted for a while but have been trackÂing the work I have been doing in the form of short videos, phoÂtos etc. Flicker in the Wind is not comÂing along as I had hoped but I … ConÂtinue readÂing
A few weeks have gone by since I last sat down to conÂtemÂplate and put to the web what has been slipÂping by too quickly. Before spring break Marcela Godoy and Aiwen Wang-Huddleston helped me by makÂing cusÂtom made wind … ConÂtinue readÂing
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IniÂtially NelÂson and I had decided to try to impleÂment the WindÂbelt within the built enviÂronÂment but needed to underÂstand how it worked to know how to impleÂment it. Our first iniÂtial take of this impleÂmenÂtaÂtion you can see here. … ConÂtinue readÂing
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This week we decided to take a step back and look at other ways of movÂing and to get a grip on what we might need to do to get our crawly thing up and runÂning. We essenÂtially looked at … ConÂtinue readÂing
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Last semesÂter I played with the game of life to creÂate a set of frames that would be exported as a PDF, from proÂcessÂing, to be reworked in IllusÂtraÂtor and then cut on our school laser cutÂter. For refÂerÂence to … ConÂtinue readÂing
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Wind Energy is all around us and we are not takÂing advanÂtage of this. CurÂrently I am workÂing on a canopy that harÂnesses wind energy to light up a panel of LEDs. As I learn how to do this I … ConÂtinue readÂing
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So this week we [Myself and Marcela Godoy] decided to try our luck and build a few mechÂaÂnisms. We wanted to try to think about the strucÂture and the mechÂaÂnism as the form for the creaÂture but needed and still … ConÂtinue readÂing
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For our final Marcela and I are going to stray away from our usual interÂest and going to attempt to build a robotic mechÂaÂnism that slowly crawls along the floor. We think we will be impleÂmentÂing a rack and pinÂion … ConÂtinue readÂing
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So Finally after many days/weeks of planÂning to go to the gym I get an assignÂment that requires I go to the gym… And I think well might as well kill two birds with the same stone no? As it … ConÂtinue readÂing
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For our final in pure data I wanted to give PD GEM a shot. I wanted to try to link up sounds with visuÂals. Or at least have the sounds affect the visuÂals. UnforÂtuÂnately my attempts failed. In a way … ConÂtinue readÂing
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For our Nature of Code Midterm I was inspired by a video [Posted Below] I saw last semesÂter of oil in water. I wanted to try to recreÂate the way the bubÂbles reacted with each other when oil is poured … ConÂtinue readÂing
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This Midterm project I have teamed up with Marcela Godoy to work on a surÂface that is made of one piece of paper and is folded. We wanted to try to fold this piece into a form and then make … ConÂtinue readÂing