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Step 1: In step 1, I took the job of student A. I followed the instructions on the recitation guideline and I successfully made the models using laser cutting. My partner Vicky and I completed the design of the base first. Vicky had some issues with setting the default units and I helped her out.… Read more Recitation 9: Digital Fabrication
The “Water & Heart” mug The idea of this project originates from my mother. I have never been a person who would drink water very often, for which my mother used to spend a lot of time reminding me of drinking water. Meanwhile, I notice that in today’s society, the connection between people is getting… Read more Final Project: Essay
Task 1: In Task 1, we made a processing Etch-A-Sketch, the mechanism of which is basically to make drawings by using two controllers that controls the x and y coordinates of your pen. I first studied into the code of SendMultipleValues and ReceiveMultipleValues. After that, I grasped the rules for me to make serial communications.… Read more Recitation 8: Serial Communication
First: Hydration Reminder From the title, we could tell that it mainly contains two elements: “Hydration” and “Reminding”. The motivation for me coming up with this idea is that I am not a person who would like to drink water very usually, which my mother has often accused me of. In fact, there are a… Read more Final Project: Three Project Proposals
In this recitation, we successfully connected the Neopixel with Processing. First of all, I connected the Neopixel with Arduino, and tested whether it could work well. It worked well following the code that I uploaded into the Arduion board, blinking in the color of rainbow. Then we managed to light up some certain LED on… Read more Recitation 7: Neopixel Music Visualization
For the preparation for my final project, I did some further research on some previous projects I know about, and also made some reflections on the midterm project I did, based on the suggestions provided by my professor. The first research is called “MugShots” done by MIT media lab. This project, according to the description… Read more Final Project: Research
During this recitation, we managed to make an interactive poster for IMA. The theme of the poster I made was Sweet. I first thought about how to draw the background of the poster. For the background, I used a nested loop so that the circle pattern filled the entire frame. I defined three RGB variables… Read more Recitation 6: Animated Poster
This is the image that I chose to sketch. This is a picture I took back in my hometown when I was going out for a walk with my parents. It was quite near to the very end of the summer vacation, because of which I cherished the time a lot with my parents on… Read more Recitation 5: Processing Basics