Here it is

Last few days

Here's my LED grid setup, in this picture a couple of the strips are out but I've fixed them since so it's working really well. My final defense is on Wednesday and there's still a lot to be done but I'm willing to sacrifice a few nights worth of sleep.  Also, since my defense is Wednesday morning I'll still have it installed Wednesday night.  I'm hoping to get some documentation footage some time after my last class which gets out at 6 p.m. so comment on here if you'd be interested in being in my video or if you just want to come check the whole thing out. 

Thanks!

Here's a video of my latest program.  The screen captures sound is terrible and its hard to see anything but at least it runs.

Work on the LED net thing?

Here's a video to see what I've been working on tonight. There are 12 of these 10 1/2 foot wires.  Each has 14 red t-taps on it.  I'll use 6 for power and 6 for ground and so there will be room for 84 series' of LEDs.  3 LEDs on each series for 252 LEDs.  I hope it all works with my 12V 20 amp power supply, I guess we'll see.

Work over break, so far

It's 3:46 a.m. on Sunday the 25th.

I just finished working on some code, exploring what sonia's audio library can do.  I don't know why minim made changing volume such a big deal buuuuut I can't seem to figure it out, at least not quickly enough.  I'll be playing 7 synchronized audio samples and adjusting their volume based on the number of points inside my boxes.  I haven't tested the code yet but that'll be tomorrow's frustration.  After sleep I'm going to the lab again and I will finish the last of the light strips, 4 or 5 more.  Then I'll get all 12 parallel lines cut and their T-taps connected 9 inches apart.  That'll probably take most of the day but if I have some time afterwards I'll run the code I've got and make some adjustments.  If I want to stay up late again maybe I'll be able to convince myself that finishing the code tomorrow is possible.  Anyway, I'll talk to Wayne more about it this coming week and I have the final small group critique Wednesday.  I'd like to have the whole light setup done and the code in some kind of working order so I can demonstrate what's goin down. I'm not ready to get excited yet, there's still so much failure ahead of me.

Good night,

Michael

Greg Borenstein

Dear Greg Borenstein (author of Making Things See...)

Thank you,

Michael Fox

Motor Setups are done

I spent the past weekend solely focused on motor setups.  Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I spent in the lab but I finished them so now I can move on to the next step.  My weekends are all freed up until the project is due so next weekend is LED weekend and the weekend after that is getting the frame built.  During the weeks I'll be programming so hopefully in three weeks time I'll have the whole thing finished and possibly installed.  Then I can get documentation to make a great project video.  Also, I'll need people to be in my documentation interacting with the project so if you're interested comment on this post.  The hope is to shoot documentation over Thanksgiving Break.  Thanks for the support!