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Prposal for Final: Arduino
I have already spoken to Steph about my proposal and am well on my way to completing it but here is a qwuick quick rundown fro the site anyways. I am going to create a installation reaction timing piece. It is kind of hard to explain but in essence it will baically basically create a physical manifestation of art in response to the inputs it recievesreceives. I will use a code that involves the user holding a button, then when the piece tells the user to release (via light or something) the user will have to release the button as quick;y as possible. This in turn will generate a number, High or low and the output will be the spraying of paint or something similiar similar on to a canvas depending on how quickly you released. The plan is to hopefully generate different art pieces based on reaction times of your own brain. It will be a physical manifestation of your reaction time turned into art. The details on the spraying paint are still in the air, as I am still working on the code and the reaction timer. I will try to create a diagram today after I head to the electronic place to brainstrom ways to make paint spray.
The plan is to hopefully generate different art pieces based on reaction times of your own brain. It will be a physical manifestation of your reaction time turned into art. The details on the spraying paint are still in the air, as I am still working on the code and the reaction timer. I will try to create a diagram today after I head to the electronic place to brainstorm ways to make paint spray. Final ProjectDocumentation So at first my original idea was the one described above. After much fumbling with the programing, failing to get it to work I decided that I would attempt to approach the project from a different perspective. Thus the Octopussy was created. After working on my original code on a Sunday night failing to get it to work I overheard my roommate's having a quite interesting conversation. They were discussing the topic of Octopus vagina's. They wondered if the place where the octopus ate was in fact the same place that it reproduced. They then proceeded to discuss whether the Octopus's vagina was pink. Anyways I found this to be hilarious and right then and there I decided that that was what I wanted to explore. I knew from there I didn't want too use any program that was to complex because the Arduino software was upsetting me. I remembered the Color mixer and thought that was a perfect fit to my project. It seemed to me that quite a few students struggled to make that program work so if I could demonstrate it with a minor modification it would suffice. If I could somehow use that to show the different colors a Octopus's vagina could be it would be perfect. I needed a way to combine these two things so I thought why not combine traditional 2-d art with this new medium of Arduino software. I Painted the Octopus and set up the Color mixer in such a way that it would be the vagina. I then thought that I still needed a novel interaction. That's when my other roommates comment struck an idea. He said "I bet you could figure out the color of it if you titillated the tentacles." That was it, I would but the potentiometers on the tentacles for a simple interaction. The rest was concealing and making the electronic portion hidden. I also modified the code to make the image size of the color box larger. I will present more pictures + a code later.
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