Branden has been working hard in the past few weeks to finish the LED grid assembly. All of the boards are together now, and things are (mostly) working. Here’s a quick video of the board in action, and connected to Processing on the laptop. (Sorry for the whiny cat in the background. Yes, she is…
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VizTech2: Beautiful Particles
I mentioned in my last post about VizTech2 (my P5.js course, with Pedro Cruz) that we had learned how to make a fireworks display using particle systems. At first, the sketch made fireworks when you clicked with the mouse. Then, we taught it to generate new fireworks by implementing a “lifetime” for each particle. If too…
LED Grid: Hardware development
This is a guest post by Branden Gunn, about building the LED Grid for our collaborative design project The hardware for the LED grid project consists of two major elements: The LED lights, and the IR touch system. The first idea for the board had the main LEDs spaced out in a 10mm grid. I…
GLP bucket app
I wanted to wait for permission from Jonathan before posting about this project, and between one thing and another, I am hitting “publish” on this post in December, even though it was written in August… So, I had this crazy idea the other day. (So far, nothing news worthy there…) It all started when Jonathan…
LED Grid: Blinking lights!
This week and last, we’ve been working hard to set a budget and optimize the design for the physical object side of the LED grid project. Branden has been developing a list of parts and is starting to lay out the circuit board design (maybe I’ll convince him to do a guest post for that part?). In the…
LED Grid: working toward a design
I wrote about the origins of my LED project and my first tottering steps toward programming in a previous post. Here, I’d like to talk a bit more about the design part of this project. (That’s way more fun, anyway.) For an electronics project like this, there are two aspects to the design: first, what does the…
LED Grid: To learn a programming language
I stumbled into the design world kind of by accident back in March or April. A flyer mysteriously showed up in my mailbox advertising a seminar on presenting data by Edward Tufte, to be held in April in Boston. It turned out that I had a schedule conflict and couldn’t make the seminar, but it…