Today was very interesting and fun. It was far more relaxed and informal than I expected. Today we learned about the theory behind AI and FABTAG. It was an interesting topic peppered with doomsday scenarios! Then we moved into talking about the Wiimote an...
Today we started with free time to do research and begin learning Processing. It was exciting to use the Java skills I learned for building a robot to make interactive programs. I started with an ellipse, then a program that when you had a mouse button pr...
Today, Wednesday, we began processing as a class. We were given an overview and saw a few examples, then we started on our own to learn and make our own sketches. Some of us went online and modified the examples given there to have our own spin on an alre...
LED = Light Emitting Diode LED’s are used in many applications from household lights to HD sports arena screens. They have so many useful applications there is an entire organization dedicated to what they call “the LED Revolution” (http...
Today, Thursday, we sank deeper into Processing and had much success and much frustration. We worked hard to figure out how to tell Processing what we want it to do. Often times I remembered the complaint of all computer programmers, “This darn co...
Today we went through a few tutorials in the beginning of class led by Katie and Bea. Then we continued onto our monsters to create something or own. We all created a monster of some kind that interacted with the mouse. Being the last day it was importa...
