Gluing in the lights!
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Solder + Hammer
Fixing the sequence + Extra blogToday I tweaked the LED sequence and got the bulbs to light up! (Last week it wasn't working perfectly.) link to instructable Audrey then set me up to blog for RPI. http://cs4hs.rpi.edu/ If you follow this link and then select "Art Teachers' Community" from the top menu, you can then find me under "STEAM mentees." Today, I made a super basic RPI blog post with some pictures (the same ones that appear on this site). I also wrote a mini bio in third person. I also thought about how I plan to incorporate the lights into my quilt. I decided to line up LEDs along the seams of the quilt's star points. I will focus on the eight longest seams.
more ArduinoToday I got set up to practice with the Arduino again. Ron helped me gather all of my materials before he left for a meeting. I tried to duplicate this design:
I did not attend my internship today because of the icy roads!
Arduino & Circuits
After talking to one of Ron's students, I've decided to try to move my interactive quilt design towards the idea of performance art, (ex. make the quilt wearable and have it light up or respond based on the movement of the person wearing it). His student, like me, is also making an ethnocomputational aesthetic activism piece, but he has a specific focus on the Dominican Republic Carnival celebration. After Ron left I started creating circuits, exploring how I might be able to duplicate the Arduino programming without any software.
Next week I hope to get back to work with the Arduino! The blog will be on hiatus for the holiday season!
Brainstorming Quilt Interaction!Today I began brainstorming how to make my quilt interactive! Ultimately, my "living" quilt must fall within these guidelines
I started off by flipping through two books that Audrey provided me with:
After brainstorming for a little while I came up with a few ideas that I liked.
I did not attend my internship today because Audrey was unavailable.
I did, however, write about my project's intersection with computational thinking: Designing this quilt through the CSDT forced me to think about art in a computational way. While quilts are typically three dimensional, I thought about my design in two dimensions for my original design. I translated my thoughts of where the fabric should be placed into coordinates and degrees. I also translated colors into numbers, and although I did not choose to use the original colors in my final design, the numbers allowed for exactness and consistency within the quilt. Once I finished my CSDT design and started making the three dimensional prototype, I thought a lot about degrees of rotation. I tried to make the pieces of fabric fit together seamlessly, and understanding how many degrees the corners of the fabric pieces were made this effort easier. While degrees and rotation were a large focus in my final prototype, I also considered the coordinates of the design by centering the quilt (0.00,0.00) as best as I could. I then moved out from the center in rings, which is similar to the CSDT process. Thinking about the quilt in terms of rings made the assembly process much easier. By thinking about the design in a computational way, greater symmetry was achieved and the quilting process became more procedural and straightforward. I did not attend my internship today because I was on vacation.
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