Final Post

The final project consists of five flex sensors, one on each digit of the hand, each digitally connected to its own LED on the breadboard which will dim as that digit bends. It also consists of a 9-DOF sensor containing an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer placed at the center of the back of the hand, […]

Cultural Event 2 – Jeff Cheng Talk

This was a public talk on DU where a man named Jeff Cheng discussed his views of the racial climate in America using pop culture references and some references to his book, “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.”, describing how while the perceived racial imbalances appear bad, things are going to improve if people want them to […]

Week 10 – Final Project

VR Controller example using leap motion: Haptic Feedback glove example: This week was all about making progressing and getting help with our final projects. My project is a VR Glove that can track the bending of the fingers along with the orientation and location of the hand. This is done using a flex sensor in […]

Week 9 – Sensors

Video of a heat-sensor driven alarm system: Flex-sensors on a vr glove (what a coincidence): This week we displayed or project 2’s then went over using sensors and cleaning the data being read by them, such as the low-pass filter method and the running average method. We first messed around with flex sensors that changed […]

Week 8 – Project 2

Video of a guy explaining some stepper motor basics using some simple project examples: This week there was no class. It was all about working on project 2 on our own. As I mentioned before, mine was a machine that would wave at people randomly. The design I went for was attaching a stiff and […]

Week 7 – Stepper Motor

Video of a stepper-motor and syringe project for moving around some water: This week was all about the stepper motor. We learned to rotate the motor around, the basics about it like how it doesn’t know “where” it is and how acceleration works on it. We used this to practice creating a few interesting rotation […]

Week 6 – Fans and Servos

Cool video of a servo-driven machine playing an IPad game: This week we moved away from lights and started working with powered objects, namely motors. We started with a fan that could be turned on an off using a latching switch controlled by the Arduino. Using this, we made small creative displays playing with […]

Week 5 – LED Finals and New Wing Setup

Looks like a drone in the works making a test flight: Someone using an Arduino system for input into a VR biking experience: This week we finally wrapped up the LED projects and demoed what we did to the class. I finished my Tetris-themed project with a guy trying to avoid the blocks. TetrisAnimation_Code […]

Week 4 – LED Advanced

Cool video of a 3d project of 8x8x8 LEDs An Arduino LED clock with a mirror effect for adding depth (literally): This week was finalizing learning basic LEDs through the use of a 4×8 NeoPixel LED matrix so we can do some stuff using more volume and with many color options. We also started using […]

Week 2 – LED Beginnings

Looked up a couple cool LED creations:

Advertisement using LED:

Tetris played on a skyscraper!:

During the week, we did an assignment for using four LEDs in an expressive way. I chose to make them dance.

LEDLightDance_Code

The homework for this weekend to was to use several LEDs together to tell some sort of narrative. I went simple, but still very descriptive: a green jagged line with pulses going across like a heartbeat monitor. To add more emotion to the piece, I have the heart rate climbing as time goes forward until it reaches the end where it flat lines. It is likely a morbid thing to do, but it matches the theme and works well as an LED display, so I’m going for it. I looked up a couple videos to determine the speed and fading a monitor uses and made the piece based on that.

Heartbeat_Code

Similar to the last project, the coding for this was simple. The majority of the time was spent more on small tweaks to the variables to get them to accomplish what I wanted, as well as making sure that the pulses were changing and fading at the desired pace. I’m looking forward to dealing with full RGB arrays and challenging myself to figure out something cool to put on those.

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