Today in our Creative Computing class we reviewed all that we learned and started learning the “random()” and the “mousePressed” functions. The “random” function allows one to generate random numbers, and the “mou...
We learned the random() function, all the types of functions and how to make our own function, the mousePressed function some other stuff that I don’t remember, and we did not get to finish today’s lesson because people were being too loud, bu...
Today I learned how to program the random function. How you program things randomly is you use a for loop. Inside the loop put your shape and inside parenthesis the put the word random, parenthesis, and a number you choose. Repeat that dependin...
Today we learned about functions with and w/0 arguments and returning values. Also we had the opportunity to experiment with for loops and shapes. Our main task was also to make ellipses (circles) appear in 200 random places filled with random colors acr...
Today we cut out a cover for the board in the car so that it would be secure and also be able to reach it to make changes easily. We also learned about how the car went forward and backward.
Today, in DIY Robotics, we didn’t really have a lecture. Instead, we watched a demonstration on what we are going to do tomorrow. Carlos, our instructor, explained what soldering is and told us how to do it. Solder is basically a metal that easily m...
Today, like yesterday, we didn’t do a lecture. We just jumped right into soldering. But before soldering, we all had to strip, our rid of insulation, our wires. I was among the first to finish, so I was among the first to solder. It was confusing an...
Tuesday July 18th Today we learned more about soldering and did a lab. We were given 5 wires(4 red and 1 green) that we had to strip and solder. Before this, I had no idea what soldering is. After today, I have learned what it is and also found out you us...
Soldering day is here! Or was, as I am done soldering. Today I soldered resistors, wires, and pins together to create… a resistor-wire-pin-thing! As far as I am told, this will be the wiring connecting the Arduino to the RC car. My method of solderi...
on the 8th day of my arduino class i had to re-solder my wires because the solder was to big. after i re-soldered my wires i put on heat-shrink tubing. the heat shrink tubing is used to keep the wire connected to the head-pin straight. then i broke the co...
Today I cut 12 inch black wires and put them in this storage box for Friday probably. Carlos also soldered my wires to an IC chip. I had to remake a green wire because my other wire was too short and I had to solder a pin to it. Soon I think I will be add...
Today was another day of complex computing. We learned how to make arrays using processing and we employed them in our programming. Then we learned how to make our shapes and figures go through edge of the screen and reappear on the other side, this later...
Day 8 Today in Creative Computing class, we learned how to use arrays in Processing. Arrays allow you to store more than one value in a variable. Each number is stored in an index in the variable. We made a lot of circles move across the screen and chan...
Today in the computing class, I learned how to make random ellipses, how to make them move and how t0 fill it. I like this class very much.
Today for our class in complex computing, we learned how to make lots of ellipses that move and respawn and flash different colors. We had a little time to draw our personal pictures. i am almost done with mine =D=D=D=D=D=D=D=D=D=D.
Today we learned how to make circles move continuously on random spots on the screen with different colors . There were 200 circles. We also colored them randomly. We made the circles move up and down and then come back up.
Today in DIY, we only had a lecture on the car’s brain and the car’s motors and how they work. Then, we got to finish up yesterday’s work and I needed to solder and heat shrink my pins.
Today I finished my soldering. I took a long time because everything kept breaking! Thankfully I was able to fix everything with the help of the counselor. After that I was able to put on heat shrink tubes to protect them. They compress and coat the elect...
Yesterday we designed a press-fit lamp with designs on it. We free handed it on paper and measured all of the interlocking shapes so that we would be able to make it in adobe illustrator. I came up with the idea when I thought of the game Minecraft and in...
This week, our project was to custom make a press fit lamp. My idea for the lamp was based on a Japanese paper lantern, but instead of making it completely paper, I made part of it wood. The design cut into the lamp is very complex, with many different k...
For the past week we’ve been working on creating 3d structures wtih 2d designs to create lamps. It’s kind of like a 3d puzzle, or gik. We first drew out the or designs on paper, creating measurements and various sizes. Then we created the...
On Monday, we started brainstorming ideas for our Press-Fit Lamps. I was planning to do this hanging star shape, but it was too complicated, so I decided to do this hanging Diamond lamp shape, it was made up of different layers, connected with 4 vertical ...
Day 8 Today, we tested out our prototypes that were cut out of cardboard. I didn’t finish my model’s pieces, so I worked on Ms. Fabiola’s example instead. Anyway, my design was pretty similar to her’s. The hard part about usin...
In the robotics camp we learned how to solter wires onto resistors. There were four red wires that controled the moters that moved the cars that we were going to hack into with our arduino and control it. There was also a green wire that is the ground or ...
On the first day of class, we talked about what a robot was and different types of robots. There were many different types of robots. One example of a more advanced robot was the Honda robot. Another example was the Quadrover robot. It was really advanced...
on the first week of camp we learned about arduino. we learned about watts. we learned how to turn on an led with a battery and a bread board. we learned how to find the programs on arduino.com and copy them and then paste them in arduino. the lights blin...
Over the first week, we managed to learn and accomplish many different things. On the first two days, we talked about robots and played with LED’s and breadboards and wires. We learned a lot about basic electricity and made basic circuits using the...
Today , we talked about the next few things that we would solder/attach to our cars. My wires had fell out so i had to re-solder the wires. Then when i started blogging this paragraph, a fire alarm went off. D= That took like five minutes of my life.
7/9/12 Today in robotics we learned about Curiosty the Mars rover that is going to land on Mars on August 5, 2012. We also learned about the self- driving Google Car. We even learned about the best humanoid robot Asimo, created by Honda. Asimo can clim...
Wednesday, June 18th Today we learned more about the circles and translate. We were able to get the circles to move across the screen from left to right. We also went into arrays. I think these are personally awesome. We had an unexpected fire alarm tha...
Today we learned how to move objects across the screen. And to extend on that, we made it so that they hit the wall. Now at first, they’d just hit the wall once and then go the bother way and disappear. So we made so that it would hit the wall, go ...
On the first day of robotics class, we had a long thorough lecture about programming and the microcontroler. During the slide show, we watched several videos about the mars rover, robot Asimo, and the google car. On tuesday, we did basic programming on t...
On the first day of camp, we did an intro to robots. Some examples were the mars rover, the google car, the quadrover, the honda robot, etc. on tuesday, we got to play around with LEDs and breadboard’s. Then, on Wednesday, we got to start playing ...
