Inch worm mod with Arduino

Emerging Technology small assignment, mod solar panel inch worm. I hooked a PING sensor to an Arduino in order to control when the motor gets voltage. Basically if anything is 8 inches or less away from it, shut off, otherwise keep going. Reference can be found here... http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Ping

Comparing results

Started to razor away spackle from each strip on the right shelf brace. Still have to sand the right brace with low grit paper. Comparing them side by side shows where the time went.

75% complete drawing

Working on a drawing the last week or so. I haven't done a drawing with tedious repetion of shape for awhile so i decided to start one. Their are only two shape images drawn, syringe needles and pills.

DIY stop-motion green screen

Setting up a green screen stage area for advanced effects class. First thing to do was get a camera above a stage with no tripod. I decided to tape masking tape down on the camera next glued cardboard to the tape. Than just glued the cardboard to a shoe box filled with weights. Placed the box on a shelf right above the stage. To make the stage area I wrapped a tapestry of yellow around a shipping box. I couldn't find green or blue but shouldn't effect the editing process to much.

Paint layers added

Many layers of paint have been added, up to mid tones just have to add darker drips. I had to clear the area for a night of stop-motion images for a video editing class. Should just be one more session of darker layers, than a quick brush session. Happy with the results, starting a new project with same theme now.

Third phase of project

So I decided to not glue paper and try something I've never done before. I mixed, cut and soaked some lined note paper. It was odd/logical that all the blue line ink came off the paper and turned the water blue. I figured they would use better ink, perhaps slightly waterproof but that's really besides the point. I added interior latex paint to the slush and with my hand started to drip it down the elevated canvas. It's making an awesome drip effect which only looks better as different tones are added each time. I'm going in a earth tone direction with the colors. Starting from green to brown.

Album cover

My friend Pat Reyhle asked me to design an album cover for his first album. He wanted a specific spot out towards Spencer's butte. I took multiple pictures, made a panorama and condensed it to exact cover size. The sky was a bit tricky because we had both decided on a picture taken 30 mins after the chosen panorama images.

Late night drawing

Random way late night drawing of a toucan. Used a .5 copic pen than flicked watered down acrylic with my fingers.

Spackle layer

Added medium and small size strips of board to previous project. Once secured with masking tape and gesso I added three spackle layers. I think my next step will be to gesso small strips of paper moving upwards on the canvas.

Inch worm and Arduino

Started to mod Robotikits attacking inch worm today. I took off the solar panel, set up a breadboard and added a ping sensor to it. I'm hoping to control the speed by distance readings.

Looking into artists

http://tomgerhardt.com/ - Tom Gerhardt's work focuses on physical world interacting with the computing world.

Blog Site

Emerging Technology class blog site model. Basically each students gets there own slot showing there latest blog postings as squares. Every 10 new posts the colored square gets darker. Scroll up and down color postings with gray boxes. Circles by subjects narrows the search.

Processing and Histograms

I've been looking for away to incorporate processing with my own digital work. The main reason is that processing language can look at an image anyway you tell it to. So with this is mind I started playing with the histogram function. Here I have it look at the hue value of the picture on the left. Once analyzed I have a fixed number of lines I could use. On the right is the result of the hue value. Of course I manipulated the coding to be more appealing by setting the start points of the lines at random.

The color value of the lines are set to be a random gradient value. I'm hoping to take this much idea much farther in the immediate future.

Point of reference(http://processing.org/learning/topics/histogram.html).

Carboard and adhesivies

Adhesives and many paper types are what I've been working on lately. I started making some shelfs by cutting out foam board into a nice design. Than weaving several strips of heavy pressed cardboard around it. Giving a feeling of roots growing naturally up my design. Soon I'll Spackle each weaving, sand it, paint it than give it a glaze over. The second picture involves the same process. Except I'll be putting tears of paper over the stripes with gesso. Hoping to achieve a popping/bursting out of the canvas motion.