Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light @ UCSD Academic Connections Summer 2010

Good Morning Class

Day 1 of the “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light” UCSD Extension Summer Course Definitely learned a lot today.  I was introduced to the world of FabLab and Processing.  This morning consisted mostly of discussion and, for lack of a bette...

Your very own Spy Pen

Day 2 of the “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light” UCSD Extension Summer Course Thankfully, the computers were not cleaned last night and all our downloads and work were still there.  Today’s plan, soldering IR LED pens and working w...

Processing 101

Day 2 of the “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light” UCSD Extension Summer Course–continued So this is the first time I have ever used any sort of coding, formatting or otherwise, so I decided to get a head strat.  It took a while t...

  • Posted On August 3, 2010
  • BY Ray

Day 1: Theory and WiiMote

Theory of interfacing with machines and the possible benefits, uses, and consequences were introduced at first.  These include the concept of singularity – the time when machines will surpass humans, enhancing human life, and the way we interact an...

Fab Lab:Day 1

Today we learned about interfaces in our lives. Almost everyhting we use in electronics has an interface that can control a two dimensional surface or a three dimensional surface. Two dimensions is easy, for example, a computer mouse uses a two dimensiona...

Fab Lab:Day 2 (Morning)

Today, I’m excited to start making infrared pens that we will use to control our Wiimotes with more ease. It’s also going to be cool use processing and learning more about it. Hopefully I will understand it as I am eager to learn about this so...

Fab Lab Light Brush Day 1

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...

  • 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...

Fab Lab – Day 2

Today we started to program the Wii Motes to the computer and control the cursor on the screen with inferred flashlights.  We also instaled and started using Processing and I made my own code for a funny game.

Accelerometer

An accelerometer is an electromechanical device that measures the acceleration of forces such as static and dynamic. By measuring the static acceleration the accelerometer can find the angle in which a device (such as the wii remote) is tilited at with r...

Accelerometer

An accelerometer is a device that measures  acceleration forces such as static and dynamic. By measuring the static acceleration the accelerometer can tell the angle a device (such as the Wii remote) is tilted with respect to earth. It measures the dyn...

LEDs: An In-Depth Look

LED–Light Emitting Diode semi conductor light source an optoelectronic optoelectronics -> study and application of electronic devices that source, detect, and control light (gamma, X-rays, UV, IR) When a light-emitting diode is switched on, elect...

  • 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...

My First Project

Day 3 of the “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light” UCSD Extension Summer Course This morning was centered around doing a little bit of research on a particular subject.  Paul and I were assigned to work on LEDs.  Without even discussing ...

  • Posted On August 5, 2010
  • BY Ray

Day 2: IR Sensors and Processing

Infrared Sensors, complimentary to the WiiMote, were made today, by replacing the normal LED inside mini-LED lights, with IR lights. This was done by soldering and unsoldering the lights from their respective components. The WiiMote utilizes the position ...

  • Posted On August 5, 2010
  • BY Ray

Infrared Light

Infrared light, within the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, has a wavelength between 0.7 and 300 micrometers.  It makes up most of the wattage in sunlight, and is invisible to the naked eye. Commonly when discussing infrared, we think of associat...

Fab Lab Paintbrush day 2

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...

Fab Lab Day 3

Processing has to be one of the coolest software programs I have ever used. I feel like a god creating and destroying different animations…well not really, but you get the point.  In Processing you can type in Java and almost create anything, from...

Fab Lab Paintbrush day 3

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...

  • Posted On August 5, 2010
  • BY Ray

Day 3: Processing Basics

Demo The basics of parameter modification and the capabilities of Processing were exposed yesterday.  Source code was able to be tampered with and, the adjusting of colour, size, and shape was performed.  By replacing certain parameters with (mouseX, mo...

Learned to use Processing

We learned how to use a program calles “Processing”. Where we were able to design, design’s that we can imagine. Useing only number we  were able to create shapes and chose different colors and even change formation on how the object...

Fab Lab – Day 3

Today we started to work with processing.  Processing is a program where you can type in commands to make different effects and different objects.  Once you understand it it becomes a lot funner to play with. My First Processing Sketch

Processing

So yesterday, August 4th, was the first day using Proccesing. We were introduced to the basics like making shape and changing their color, as well as moving the shapes with the cursor. We were given some time to mess around with the program to see what we...

  • 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...

So…much…code

Day 4 of the “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light” UCSD Extension Summer Course Today was a lot of work.  We were working with Processing again, but doing things a tad bit more difficult.  We had to do everything from scratch, no source ...