• Posted On August 3, 2010
  • BY Michael

Paintbrush of light: Day 1

Today we began to talk about the basic concepts and theories of the Wii remote’s sensors, and various other motion, and IR based things. The Wii remote has a multitude of various pieces that affect its performance and how it works. Probably one of t...

  • Posted On August 3, 2010
  • BY Michael

Paintbrush of light: Day 2 (Part 2)

Today, due to uncalled for events, did not quite go as planned. Because of difficulties acquiring  the components for the IR pens, we did not do anything with those until much later. At the beginning of class we continued to experiment with the Wii remot...

  • Posted On August 4, 2010
  • BY Michael

Paintbrush of light: Day 1

Today we began to talk about the basic concepts and theories of the Wii remote’s sensors, and various other motion, and IR based things. The Wii remote has a multitude of various pieces that affect its performance and how it works. Probably one of t...

  • Posted On August 5, 2010
  • BY Michael

Paintbrush of light: Day 3

We started off the day today by researching various terms that have been used throughout the whole class such as accelerometer, LED, infrared light, infrared camera, and gravitational constant. We were paired up to research one of these terms. Ethan and I...

  • Posted On August 6, 2010
  • BY Michael

Paintbrush of light: Day 2 (Part 1)

Today we have been told that we will be creating an infrared pen to further interact with the Wii remote’s IR sensor. An infrared pen is essentially a whiteboard pen with all of its insides removed and replaced with a battery, switch and infrared LE...

  • Posted On August 6, 2010
  • BY Michael

Paintbrush of light: Day 4

Today, pretty much the entire day was dedicated to learning more, and progressing our skills in processing. I learned quite a bit from both our instructors, and the processing website. The focus of the first half of the day was creating custom shapes, and...