creating drawing machines by using an H-bridge to control stepper motors attached to mechanical arms
stepper_oneRevolution(Arduino>File>Examples>Stepper>stepper_oneRevolution)
This step works to check whether our circuit is working properly, or our computer may damaged. ( The IC has a front and a back. A semicircle indicates where the front of the IC is.)
MotorKnob (Arduino>File>Examples>Stepper>MotorKnob)
(modify the number of steps within the code to 200, because the 42STH33-0404AC Stepper Motor is a 200 step motor)
Question 1: What kind of machines would you be interested in building? Add a reflection about the use of actuators, the digital manipulation of art, and the creative process to your blog post.
To be honest, I only enjoy making interactive and interesting installations. if the machine I made is boring without innovative ideas, I would not keep it. Since my partner and I were thinking of our mid term interactive project, I got some inspirations from this recitation. Though there is not specifically an actuator, the output is extremely intriguing with drawing pens and machined arms made through laser cutting. I used to think coding is disgusting in middle school, just because we did not have an Arduino at that time. Making a program without any outcome is terrible. Only by interacting with the outcome could programmer check the practicality and achieve the sense of accomplishment. The most creative process could only be completed with various actuators and artistic or interesting output.
Question 2: Choose an art installation mentioned in the reading ART + Science NOW, Stephen Wilson (Kinetics chapter). Post your thoughts about it and make a comparison with the work you did during this recitation. How do you think that the artist selected those specific actuators for his project?
From my perspective, I like Gil Weinburg’s Haile, the robot that could improvise using algorithms after listening to music. Such kind of robot musician is brilliant since our former understanding of robots are stupid but hardworking creature that work by processing the code. However, this Haile could do creative thinking and produce music, which is really fascinating to me. The painter we created in class was actually controlled by our manipulation. Compared with out simple work, the robot Gil made is more creative and interesting by implementing algorithms. I even want to combine these two installation together to draw the music, which would be more creative and interesting.
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