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

Fab Lab Day 4

Processing proved to be quite annoying today, however genius a program it may be. What takes about an hour and a half of intense programming is something you can do in about 5 minutes in Paint.However, it is still a great program as it is allowing me to m...

LED’s

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...

Fab Lab Paintbrush day 4

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...

  • 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...

Fab Lab:Day 2 RECAP

IR sensors obviously must be in a shortage in San Diego, seeing as how it took our instructor, Katie about an hour and a half to muster up enough to allow us to continue with our IR sensor work. The work involes soldering an infrared light onto somesort o...

Catching Up

Today was my first day of class, I had a lot of catching up to do. The first thing I learned was that you can hack the Wii remote and connected to a computer via bluetooth and use it as a sensor to control the computer with an infrared led pen. I also loo...

Learn about the WII remote

How the Wii remote works- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETAKfSkec6A    A man named Johnny Lee found out a different way to use this control other than just playing games. watch the video below and you will see his way to use it. –http://www.yout...

InfraRed

Infrared – the part of the invisible spectrum that is comprised of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths of 800 nm to 1. Infrared can be used in many different application depending who you are.  For example if you need to be able to see at ni...

The Gravitational Constant

The Gravitational Constant is a physical constant, meaning that it is constant through time and space, that measures the attraction between two objects with mass. The constant states that the attractive force between two objects is the product of their m...

  • 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...

Fab Lab – Day 5 Morning

Today I’m trying to make  a picture say on the screen when I press the mouse but its doing everything but that.  So I’m going to try to get it to work  but I really doubt i will.   Yes I got it to work.  Haha.  And i go the eyes to mov...

Fab Lab Paintbrush day 5

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...

Fab Lab: Day 5

The day has finally come. My final chance to create and share with the rest of the class the one and the only Cookie Monster! But yes, today is our final day working with processing. So far I have created 3 things only one of which I am somewhat proud of...

Fab Lab Final Day:UPDATED

3…2…1…and we have liftoff! Success! Yes i did finally create cookie monster, and now he has an added bonus to him as well. Now instead his eye just following you(he only has one eye now…) when you click the screen Cookie-Clops(that...

Final Day :/

Well on the final day we figured out what almost everything in processing works. It wasnt just putting down numbers to see wat happened.We actually knew what we were doing. So i would like to say thanks to Bea and Katie for everything, and the new experie...

Final blog friday 6th

Well today was the last day, boomer. Well I won’t have to have to wake up and 5:30 am and catch three busses and the trolley to get here, hahaha, but I won’t be able to get help on Processing if I get stuck. Well at least I got an idea how pr...

"It's a MONSTER!!!"

Day 5 of the “Engineering a Paintbrush Made of Light” UCSD Extension Summer Course The week went by so fast, I can hardly believe it.  This morning I finalized my two projects, the “Eyeball Monster” and “Fire”.  The ...