Ryan Glasgow
My interests in art generally involve around design, specifically interface design, such as websites. I'm currently the Creative Director at Extrabux.com and designed the current website, as well as wrote the HTML/CSS. Other websites I've designed can be seen at RyanGlasgow.net/work. The reason I switched my major from Economics, to Media: Computing Emphasis is because I began to become more and more interested in design, and decided to pursue a career as a designer/entrepreneur.
== '''Midterm Project''' ==
My original idea was for a pendulum apparatus that represents a coin that is often flipped to make decisions. The result of a coin flip can be rigged by the human if he or she is skilled, which is the artistic statement of my work. For the coin to be flipped, I needed a single switch relay to memorize the state as the pendulum swung each time, but was only able to figure out the double switch relay as diagrammed in our lab.
== Since I wasn'''Midterm Proposal''' ==t able to use the relay, I switched my idea to a "Life is Good" meter. This was still a pendulum apparatus, but every time the pendulum swung all the way down, it metal foil would connect the contacts and a 5v light bulb would light up at the top. It would illuminate a hand painted sign that said "Life is Good".
My Midterm proposal is Project Details: I built a 2ft tall wooden pendulum switchusing 2 2"x5" pieces of wood. I used the 12v wall plug to power the device, and connected it to the breadboard. The switch is a wooden frameOn the breadboard, the 12v's was converted to 5v's using the 7805 transistor, with and a lengthy wire hanging (about 1.5 feet), ran up and then down the middle that swings a metal soda canarm of the pendulum. The soda can is manually swungwire was taped to the aluminum foil contacts on both the pendulum base, and if it reaches a certain height in either direction it touches pendulum arm. Between the aluminum foil contact pads. If the circuit is completed on the left sidecontacts, I soldered a 5v lightbulb will illuminate and placed it inside a YES white sign. If that was mounted at the top of the circuit pendulum that said "Life is completed on the right side, a NO sign will illuminateGood".
The system represents Artist Statement: Since I wasn't able to use the original coin flip idea with the relay, I began to think about other meanings the pendulum could have. I looked for a meaning that was unsure and unsteady as the pendulum swung back and forth, but a statement that increasingly became more and more illuminated as the pendulum slowed down. At first I couldn't think of anything, but having a really busy and stressful week myself with multiple midterms and business meetings for work, I started to realize that the statement "And this too, shall pass", which my father always told me when I was going through a lot of stress. I wanted a coin more modern statement that my peers could better relate too, and chose to use the popular brand "Life is Good", which is now plastered all over t-shirts, pants, and hats. == '''Final Project: FingerHero''' == Proposal: My final project proposal is often flipped to make decisionsa version of guitar hero. Instead of a guitar the project would have 4 buttons that would be pressed using your fingers. The result display would be an array of 16 LED's laid out in a 4x4 format. The lighted LED's would descend, and the person would need to hit the button as the LED is in the second to last row. On the side, there would be a vertical array of LED's that keep track of your score, and would increase each time you hit a coin flip can new level. The user would be rigged able to choose between three different songs. FingerHeroby Ryan GlasgowVIS147Aint score = 0; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); int mySong[20]={1,3,2,3,1,2,3,2,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,3,1,3,2,3}; // initialize the human digital pin as an output: for (int pinCount = 0; pinCount < 12; pinCount++) { pinMode(pinCount, OUTPUT); } for (int rowCounter = 0; rowCounter < 20; rowCounter++) { switch (mySong[rowCounter]) { case 1: // 1ST Col digitalWrite(7, HIGH); digitalWrite(6, HIGH); digitalWrite(4, HIGH); delay(500); if(analogRead(0) > 1000) { digitalWrite(5, HIGH); score++; } break; case 2: // 2nd Col digitalWrite(113 nn/, HIGH); digitalWrite(10, HIGH); digitalWrite(9, HIGH); delay(500); if(analogRead(1) > 1000) { digitalWrite(8, HIGH); score++; } break; case 3: // 3rd Col digitalWrite(0, HIGH); digitalWrite(1, HIGH); digitalWrite(2, HIGH); delay(500); if(analogRead(2) > 1000) { digitalWrite(3, HIGH); score++; } break; } delay(500); for (int pinCount = 0; pinCount < 12; pinCount++) { digitalWrite(pinCount, LOW); }}}void loop() { if he or she is skilled(score > 0) { digitalWrite(8, HIGH); delay(500); } if(score > 5) {digitalWrite(9, HIGH); delay(500); } if(score > 10) { digitalWrite(10, HIGH); delay(500); } if(score > 15) { digitalWrite(11, which is the artistic statement of my workHIGH); delay(500); }} [[Image:FingerHero1.jpg]][[Image:FingerHero2.jpg]][[Image:FingerHero3.jpg]]